US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 20 for "Method for network node and network node" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,157, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for network node and network node" was invented by Iskren Ianev (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo) and Kundan Tiwari (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a Session Management Function (SMF) apparatus includes communicating with a Network Slice Admission Control Function (NSACF) apparatus and sending a message to the NSACF apparatus for a Network Slice Admission Control (NSAC). The message includes information related to a handover from Evolved Packet System (EPS) to 5th Generation System (5GS) and information indicating the NSACT is not supported in the EP...