ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,853, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Network node selection by a user equipment (UE) using one or more probability values" was invented by Sherif Elazzouni (San Diego), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Shankar Krishnan (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a network node may transmit access information indicating one or more probability values that are respectively associated with one or more network nodes. The probability values may be selected to "guide" or "steer" one or more UEs to select an anchor node and/or a non-anchor node for communication. As an illustrative example,...