H04W 36/18
For allowing seamless reselection
Official title: for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection
H04W36/18 (For allowing seamless reselection) appears on 1,842 US grants and 1,960 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 1,842
- Published applications
- 1,960
- Assignees
- 412
- Inventors
- 3,259
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 54 | 118 |
| 2024 | 67 | 92 |
| 2025 | 78 | 86 |
| 2026 | 67 | 70 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Switching delay control in a dual-active protocol stack handover6 Oct 2026US 12,757,081 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Method and apparatus for handover of wireless backhaul node, which minimizes data downtime in next-generation mobile communication system29 Sep 2026US 12,750,750 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Wireless communication system and wireless communication method22 Sep 2026US 12,745,151 B2NTT, Inc.
- Smart GNB coordination in telecommunications networks15 Sep 2026US 12,739,940 B2Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C.
- Methods and apparatuses for a DAPS failure recovery mechanism and a MRO mechanism for CHO and DAPS procedures1 Sep 2026US 12,726,875 B2Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
- Seamless mobility domain support signaling8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313500 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Assigning seamless mobility domain identifiers and signaling in reduced neighbor reports8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313501 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- User plane aspects considering duplicate discard for dual active protocol stack handover report8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313502 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Privacy group and aid assignment for seamless roaming in enhanced privacy networks1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304236 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Methods for handover enhancement for non-terrestrial network in wireless communications1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304270 A1MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for providing a soft handoff in communications in a CDMA cellular telephone system852US 5,101,501 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1992
- Mobile station assisted soft handoff in a CDMA cellular communications system765US 5,267,261 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1993
- CDMA microcellular telephone system and distributed antenna system therefor661US 5,280,472 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1994
- Cellular communications system with centralized base stations and distributed antenna units498US 5,627,879 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1997
- Communications system440US 5,682,256 ABritish Telecommunications Public Ltd.Co. · 1997