US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on June 16 for "Procedure to join a multicast session" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,702, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Procedure to join a multicast session" was invented by Horst Thomas Belling (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for joining a multicast session of a communications network. In this regard, a control plane (CP) join request for a multicast service is received from user equipment. Furthermore, provision of a reject message associated with the CP join request to the user equipment is caused in response to a determination that a multicast distribution session is not available for a ...