US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on March 17 for "Methods for enhancing RLC in IoT NTN" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,637, issued on March 17, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte Ltd..

"Methods for enhancing RLC in IoT NTN" was invented by Yao-Hua Cai (Shanghai), Abhishek Roy (San Jose, Calif.), FangMing Shi (Shanghai), Yulan Liu (Shanghai) and Chen Qian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for enhanced AM RLC for NB-IoT UE in the NTN. In one novel aspect, the UE is configured with HARQ disabled, and configured with fast polling and/or fast status report for AM RLC enhancement. In one embodiment, the UE is configured with shortened AM window size, and wherein the shortened window size is smaller than an AM ...