US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 21 for "Terminal and radio communication system for flexible multicast and broadcast scheduling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,024, issued on July 21, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and radio communication system for flexible multicast and broadcast scheduling" was invented by Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo), Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal receives downlink control information for the downlink data channel. The terminal performs scheduling of the downlink data channel in data distribution for multiple terminals based on specific downlink control information separate from the downlink control information."

The patent was filed on March 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/282,725.

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