Samsung Files Patent for a 5G Broadcast Data-Sizing Method
Sending the same video stream to thousands of phones at once sounds simple, but 5G networks still struggle to agree on how…
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Samsung Patents a Way for Wi-Fi Devices to Warn Routers When They Go Offline
When your phone goes to sleep or switches tasks, your router often has no idea. Samsung wants to fix that with a…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Audio-Video Stream Conflicts in Emergency Radio Networks
When police officers or firefighters transmit video and audio over a push-to-talk network, two streams can accidentally get the same ID number,…
Samsung Patents a Method to Fix Corrupt Data Faster in 5G and 6G Networks
Every wireless signal you send gets wrapped in a layer of math that lets the receiver fix errors on the fly. Samsung…
Samsung's New Patent Logs Every Dead Zone Your Phone Hits Across Multiple Towers
Every time your phone silently fails to connect to a cell tower, that failure probably goes unrecorded. Samsung has patented a way…
Google's New Patent Stops Your Phone From Waiting on Its Own SIM Card
Every time your phone connects to a carrier network, your SIM card and modem go through a slow back-and-forth handshake. Google has…
Amazon Patents Technology to Stop Cloud Data From Arriving Scrambled
When your cloud server sends thousands of data packets at once, they don't always arrive in the right order. Amazon is patenting…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Keeps AR Glasses Streaming Smoothly Without Draining the Battery
Running AR or VR on a headset is brutally power-hungry, so the heavy computer-vision work gets pushed to a server. The catch:…
New 5G Filing Lets Phones Find Each Other Without a Cell Tower
Most location tech relies on a cell tower or satellite to tell your phone where it is. Apple's new patent describes a…
Apple Patents a System for One Device to Coordinate Wireless Traffic Across a Group
Apple is patenting a way to let one device act as a mini traffic controller for a cluster of nearby devices borrowing…
Microsoft Patents a Per-Customer Early Warning System for Cloud Slowdowns
Most cloud monitoring watches the whole network at once, which means small problems affecting specific customers get buried in the noise. Microsoft's…
Apple Patent Targets Wi-Fi Transmission Scheduling During Network Quiet Periods
Your phone's radio chip is doing nothing for tiny fractions of every second. Apple wants to use those gaps to sneak in…
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