ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,039, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Handling of multicast sessions" was invented by Horst Thomas Belling (Erding, Germany) and Philippe Godin (Versailles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for performing: determining a presence of at least one user equipment that is participating in a multicast session while in an inactive state; determining an area where handling of the multicast session for the at least one user equipment in inactive state is required; determining one or more nodes handling cells within at least a part of the determin...