US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Network coding in automatic receipt request" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,702, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network coding in automatic receipt request" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Jian Li (Shanghai), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Yu Zhang (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network coding in automatic receipt request (ARQ) functionality is disclosed. A compatible transmitter configures a new transmission period, in which the set of data for transmission is transmitted, and a retransmission period, after the new transmission period, in which a number of network coded data is retransmitted based on the acknowledgement...