US Patent Issued to Boost SubscriberCo on Sept. 22 for "User plane function event exposure" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,070, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"User plane function event exposure" was invented by Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, Texas), Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for obtaining a cellular network address are presented herein. A request can be received from a network function residing outside of a cellular network core. The request can indicate an external Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a piece of user equipment (UE). A network exposure function (NEF) of the cellula...