ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,197, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"User equipment, server, and methods therefor" was invented by Tsuyoshi Takakura (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge enabler client (EEC) (2) of a User Equipment (UE) (1) receives from an edge configuration server (ECS) (7) a service provisioning notification containing edge data network (EDN) configuration information for accessing an EDN (4), and responds to the ECS (7) with a response message in response to receiving the service provisioning notification. For example, this can allow the ECS to know whether or not a service provisioning ...