ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,851, issued on March 31, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"PDCP UL split and pre-processing" was invented by Jose Luis Pradas (Stockholm), Torsten Dudda (Wassenberg, Germany), Henning Wiemann (Aachen, Germany) and Henrik Enbuske (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a UE in an uplink split-bearer configuration is configured to transmit PDUs by a first RLC entity via a first uplink transmission path and/or by a second RLC entity via a second uplink transmission path. The UE determines a total amount of data volume from PDCP data volume and RLC data volume pending for initia...