The Rolls Royce one is this year. If you think the LTE patents are obvious, I'm not sure what to tell you. Qualcomm, NTT, Intel, etc, spend billions researching all this obvious stuff you could come up with in your basement.
Lets pick the first one on the list... Afterall, MPEG LA's patents is the best example of LTE patents, so any ones of theirs must be good.
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current video picture and a nearby video picture is determined.
