US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 13 for "Multiple access point (AP) association" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,687, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple access point (AP) association" was invented by Naeem Akl (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Karl Georg Hampel (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a lower layer split for a radio access network (RAN) node. In some examples, the number of tiers for the user plane path may be reduced from three to two, which may include redistribution of functionality of a central unit user plane (CU-UP) between two network entities. In some examples, a first network entity of the two network entities may be configured to receive, fr...