US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Detecting unresponsive user equipment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,197, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting unresponsive user equipment" was invented by Sunil Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Thiruvenkatam Muthukrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can communicate broadband cellular communications with a base station. The system can receive an indication from the base station to perform iterations of transmitting a keep alive report periodicity signal according to a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit format. The system can initiate the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal to the b...