ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,553, issued on March 3.

"Configuring skipping of paging early indication in wireless communications" was invented by Sambit Behura (Telangana, India), Ishdeep Singh Juneja (Telangana, India), Varun Walia (Telangana, India), Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to configuring a device to skip multiple paging early indication (PEI) occasions. An indication of a skip duration of multiple discontinuous receive (DRX) cycles to skip in monitoring for a paging early indication (PEI) can be received, and a reduced power state can be entered for...