US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 4 for "Methods and apparatuses for discovery and selection of a local NEF" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,066, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatuses for discovery and selection of a local NEF" was invented by Debashish Purkayastha (Collegeville, Pa.), Robert Gazda (Spring City, Pa.), Michel Roy (Candiac, Canada), Saad Ahmad (Montreal) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for discovery and selection of a Local Network Exposure Function (L-NEF) are described herein. A method of for registering with a Network Repository Function (NRF) performed by a L-NEF may include sending, to the NRF, a register re...