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Ericsson v. Nokia Patents for IoT(Internet of Things) Connectivity Standards
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Attribute Ericsson Nokia
No of Patents Analyzed 142 145
Connectivity Standards 3GPP CDMA/LTE, IEEE 802.11 WiFi,
IEEE 802.15.1/Bluetooth SIG Core 2 - 4
3GPP CDMA/LTE, IEEE 802.11 WiFi,
IEEE 802.15.1/Bluetooth SIG Core 2 – 4,
IEEE 802.15.4 Zigbee, ISO 18092/NFC
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Related IoT Platform Samsung Artik, Apple HomeKit,
Broadcom WICED™, Qualcomm AllPlay,
Google Connected Home, MediaTek
LinkIT One, Vodafone global M2M
platform
Samsung Artik, Apple HomeKit, Broadcom
WICED™, Qualcomm AllPlay, Google
Connected Home, MediaTek LinkIT One,
Vodafone global M2M platform
Average Forward
Citations/No of Patents
with more than 100
Forward Citations
27/7 13/2
Most Cited Patent US6445917 (Mobile station measurements
with event-based reporting): The present
invention provides event-based or driven
reporting of mobile station measurements.
A mobile station measures one or more
radio-related parameters for one or more
US6031827 (Method for radio resource
control): In order to control the use of
physical radio resources, the physical radio
resources are divided into chronologically
consecutive frames (14), so that a frame
contains slots (16, 17, 18) of various sizes,

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cells in a radio access network. The mobile
station evaluates the measured radio-related
parameter with respect to a predetermined
condition or event and determines that the
predetermined condition is satisfied or that
the event has occurred. Based on that
evaluation, the mobile radio sends a report
to the radio access network. Accordingly,
the occurrence of an event and/or the
satisfaction of a condition triggers the
sending of the report to the network. That
way, the network receives the information
so that it can take timely and appropriate
action without sending outdated or
redundant measurement reports that do not
convey relevant or new information.
which slots represent a given share of the
physical radio resources contained in the
frame and can be individually allocated to
different radio connections. The first
dimension of a frame is time and the
second dimension can be time, frequency
or code. In the direction of the second
dimension the slots represent various sizes,
and a given first integral number of slots of
the first size can be modularly replaced by
another integral number of slots of another
size. A certain number of consecutive
frames form a superframe (19), in which
case frames with corresponding locations in
consecutive superframes are equal in slot
division and allocations, if the data
transmission demands do not change.
Changes in the state of occupancy of the
slots are possible at each superframe. In
order to form an uplink connection, the
mobile station sends a capacity request,
where it indicates the type of requested
connection and the demand of resources. In
order to form a downlink connection, the
base station subsystem sends a paging call,
where it indicates the location in the
superframe of the slots allocated to the
connection. In order to indicate the state of
occupancy, the base station subsystem

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maintains a superframe-size parametrized
reservation table.
Priority Year
No of Patents
Transferred/Party
32/BlackBerry, CE Nuclear Power, Cluster
LLC, InterDigital, UPIP
22/Acacia, Google, Qualcomm, Sisvel,
Vringo, WiLAN
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Ericsson
Nokia

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No of Patents
Litigated/Party
9/Apple, Samsung, D-Link, Acer, Dell,
Gateway, NETGEAR, Toshiba
4/Apple, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, HTC,
LG, ZTE, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile,
Sprint
References
IoT (Internet of things) Wireless Connectivity Standards Innovation Leadership
Link: http://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2015/05/iot-internet-of-things-wireless.html
TechIPm IoT (Internet of Things) Intellectual Property (Patent) Strategy Consulting Services
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