As a communication standard, 5g cannot be owned by a certain country. The main holders of 5G network patents are not one, but jointly held by Huawei, Qualcomm and Ericsson. Qualcomm, Huawei, ZTE and Samsung all have many patents.
In the field of new 5G air interface, the total number of standard patents filed is as high as 5 124. According to the declared patent holders of 5G standard, the patentees who hold more than 1000 patents of 5G new air interface standard include: Huawei, Ericsson and Samsung.
5G preventive measures
With the development of this IT-centric network trend, the delay advantage of 5G requires a more distributed architecture to realize use cases that require real-time data processing.
For consumers, a seamless mobile VR experience will require some computing and storage functions to migrate from the central cloud to the edge cloud. For enterprises, real-time facial recognition for security or access control will require localized data processing in the edge cloud to support "real-time" aspects.