ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,736, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Broadband connection method and apparatus" was invented by Zuqing Li (Shenzhen, China), Tao Peng (Nanjing, China) and Zhouyi Yu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband connection method includes a virtual broadband network gateway (vBNG)-control plane (CP) that receives first indication information from a user plane selection function (USF), where the first indication information indicates a second vBNG-user plane (UP) that replaces a first vBNG-UP when the first vBNG-UP is faulty. The vBNG-CP sends a user entry to the second vBNG-UP...