ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,051, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DRNC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Service-based discovery in networks" was invented by Dale Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Guang Lu (Thornhill, Canada), Kamel M. Shaheen (Camas, Wash.), Dorothy Gellert (Mountain View, Calif.), Zongrui Ding (Portland, Ore.), Lijun Dong (San Diego) and Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may implement service-based discovery in a network, such as a 3GPP or 3GPP2 network. A Discovery Server may be used to query and find services offered by the network or by entities ...