ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,546, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wi-LAN INC. (Ottawa).
"Pre-allocated random access identifiers" was invented by Yair Bourlas (San Diego), Adam E. Newham (Poway, Calif.), Lei Wang (San Diego) and Srikanth Gummadi (Sainikpuri, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of pre-allocating identifiers to wireless devices for use in requesting resources over a random access channel are described. A wireless communication system includes a random access channel over which wireless devices can anonymously send requests for resources. The base stations receiving and processing the anonymous requests reduces the probabili...