US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for signaling network coding capabilities" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,832, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for signaling network coding capabilities" was invented by Pierre Visa (Rennes, France), Pascal Lagrange (La Chapelle des Fougeretz, France), Philippe Le Bars (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Romain Guignard (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method of transmitting over a radio access network to a base station, by a network entity, a radio resource control signalling indicating the capability of a user equipment to perform network coding, wherein the method comprises: detecting by the network entity of a tr...