US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for providing information to a network" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,372, issued on March 31, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for providing information to a network" was invented by Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal, Canada), Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada), Mahmoud Watfa (Saint Leonard, Canada) and Saad Ahmad (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for providing information to a network are disclosed. An eNodeB (eNB) may receive pattern information relating to connection state management behavior of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The eNB may receive this information over S1 signaling when a connecti...