US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for multicast sessions in location areas in 5G networks" (Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,787, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for multicast sessions in location areas in 5G networks" was invented by Thomas Belling (Munich) and David Navratil (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus. The apparatus is configured to: store information of a multicast session, the information comprising at least one identifier of the multicast session, and information about access to different content for the multicast session in a plurality of different location areas; and, in response to a request from a second apparatus,...