US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "Restrict mobile to mobile communication dynamically in 5G user plane function" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,461, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Restrict mobile to mobile communication dynamically in 5G user plane function" was invented by Gautam Mohanlal Borkar (Redmond, Wash.) and Anthony Maswan Fajri (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes generating, using a User Plane Function (UPF) of a core element of a network, a query to retrieve information associated with one or more Data Network Names (DNNs) configured in at least one other UPF in the network; transmitting the query to a Network Repository Function (NRF); receiving a response from the NRF,...