ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,716, issued on May 5, was assigned to CHINA MOBILE GROUP DESIGN INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Beijing) and CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Data offload method and device" was invented by Jian Ge (Beijing), Chengyao Zhang (Beijiing, China), Hao Wang (Beijing), Dekun Kong (Beijing) and Xinwei Che (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data offloading method, performed by an uplink classifier (UL CL) user plane function (UPF), includes: subscribing a general data network name (DNN) and a dedicated DNN for a target user in a unified data management (UDM), configuring an offloading rule, inserting the UL CL UPF a session man...