US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Feb. 17 for "Communication class aware idle mode cell reselection" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,996, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Communication class aware idle mode cell reselection" was invented by Yun Sung Kim (Ashburn, Va.), Pinalkumari Tailor (Ashburn, Va.), Minho Song (Ashburn, Va.) and Sanghoon Sung (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an access node to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to one or more wireless devices. The access node may include processing circuitry configured to periodically transmit a system information broadcast. The system information broadcast may include idle-mode cell reselection thresholds...