ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,834, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"BGP signaling for access network-user plane function" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Arda Akman (San Ramon, Calif.) and Constantine Dimitrios Polychronopoulos (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for extending Mobile User Plane-Gateway architecture Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling to an integrated Access Network-User Plane (ANUP) function in mobile networks. In an example, a method comprises receiving, by a computing system, a routing protocol message comprising second...