US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 1 for "Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for identifying an access network node" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,887, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for identifying an access network node" was invented by Horst Thomas Belling (Munich) and Bruno Landais (Lannion, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a network apparatus configured to receive from a core network function a request to discover at least one access network node serving a user equipment, the request comprising a first user equipment identifier for identifying the user equipment in a core network; and use the user equipment identifier to provide to the core network functio...