US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on April 14 for "Paging alert channel for a satellite access network" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,297, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Paging alert channel for a satellite access network" was invented by Liping Chen (Bethesda, Md.), Lin-nan Lee (Potomac, Md.) and Neal D. Becker (Onley, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device can perform discontinuous reception to intermittently monitor a wireless communication channel designated for receiving paging messages. The communication device determines that a synchronization signal for the wireless communication channel is not received during monitoring in the discontinuous reception. In response to the determination, ...