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EP4088491 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC GROUP MANAGEMENT [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Examination is in progress Status updated on 07.06.2024 Database last updated on 09.04.2026
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 14.10.2022
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 16.07.2021
Most recent event Tooltip	29.12.2025	New entry: Renewal fee paid
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ.) 16483 Stockholm / SE
	[2022/46]
Inventor(s)	01 / EL ESSAILI, Ali Tittardsfeld 108 52072 Aachen / DE
	02 / XU, Wenliang No. 1068 Tianshan Road West, Changning District Shanghai 200335 / CN
	[2022/46]
Representative(s)	Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP One Portwall Square Portwall Lane Bristol BS1 6BH / GB
	[2022/46]
Application number, filing date	20912422.1	18.12.2020
	[2022/46]
	WO2020CN137685
Priority number, date	WO2020CN70460	06.01.2020 Original published format: PCT/CN2020/070460
	[2022/46]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2021139509
	Date:	15.07.2021
	Language:	EN
	[2021/28]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP4088491
	Date:	16.11.2022
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 15.07.2021 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2022/46]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	CN	15.07.2021
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	23.05.2023
Classification	IPC:	H04W4/08, H04L67/104, H04W4/40, H04W8/18	[2023/25]
	CPC:	H04W4/40 (EP,CN,US); H04W4/08 (EP,CN,US); H04W8/186 (EP,CN)
	Former IPC [2022/46]	H04W4/08
Designated contracting states	AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2022/46]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR MULTICAST-GRUPPENVERWALTUNG	[2022/46]
	English:	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC GROUP MANAGEMENT	[2022/46]
	French:	PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL DE GESTION DE GROUPE DYNAMIQUE	[2022/46]
Entry into regional phase	05.08.2022	National basic fee paid
	05.08.2022	Search fee paid
	05.08.2022	Designation fee(s) paid
	05.08.2022	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	05.08.2022	Examination requested [2022/46]
	14.12.2023	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	14.12.2023	Date on which the examining division has become responsible
	07.06.2024	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	07.10.2024	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.06.2025	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	01.10.2025	Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	27.12.2022	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.12.2023	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.12.2024	Renewal fee patent year 05
	29.12.2025	Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:	Search	[XI] US2008045192 (ZHAO QIN et al.) [X] 1-5,9-11,13-17 * paragraph [0056] - paragraph [0125] *[I] 6-8,12
		[I] SAMSUNG: "Pseudo-CR on group procedures", vol. SA WG6, no. Bruges, Belgium; 20190520 - 20190524, 24 May 2019 (2019-05-24), XP051744525, Retrieved from the Internet [retrieved on 20190524] [I] 1-17 * page 1 - page 4 *
		[A] "3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Service Enabler Architecture Layer for Verticals (SEAL); Functional architecture and information flows; (Release 16)", vol. SA WG6, no. V16.2.0, 24 December 2019 (2019-12-24), pages 1 - 119, XP051840989, Retrieved from the Internet [retrieved on 20191224] [A] 1-17 * page 18 - page 21 *

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