US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 9 for "AMF apparatus, access network node, and methods therefor" (British, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,038, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"AMF apparatus, access network node, and methods therefor" was invented by Iskren Ianev (Reading, Great Britain) and Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AMF apparatus (3) receives a NAS message for requesting a core network to establish or activate a PDU session associated with an allowed network slice identifier, from a UE (4), via a first cell (10) not supporting the allowed network slice identifier and via a first AN node (1) that provides the first cell (10). In response to receiving the NAS message, the AMF apparatus (3) sends to the first AN node ...