US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Paging a user equipment in idle or inactive state" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,060, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Paging a user equipment in idle or inactive state" was invented by Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing) and Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is grouped into a paging subgroup for the purposes of receiving pages from a network. The UE receives, from the network, a paging configuration for a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state paging operation, the paging configuration comprising a paging subgroup identification for the UE and monitors paging occasions based o...