ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,623, issued on Aug. 4.

"Method and apparatus for session management" was invented by Yingjiao He (Shanghai), Jinyin Zhu (Shanghai), Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden) and Wen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for session management. The method at a control plane function comprises determining data to be restored in a user plane function or a first Internet Protocol (IP) address pool identifier. The method further comprises sending a first session establishment request to the user plane function, wherein the first session establishment request includes a data restoration flag and the data to be restored in...