US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Eliminating emergency call loss due to tunnel endpoint identifier re-use in cellular networks" (Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,617, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Eliminating emergency call loss due to tunnel endpoint identifier re-use in cellular networks" was invented by Sudeep Kumar Pandey (Acton, Mass.), Sujin Kumar Anagani (Morrisville, N.C.) and Rohit Jain (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes receiving, a serving gateway of a core network of a wireless communication system, a call request associated with an emergency service; assigning a Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID) to the call, wherein the TEID has a plurality of bits and a first segment of the plurality of ...