US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Network repository function failure handling" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,494, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Network repository function failure handling" was invented by Sandeep Raman Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Khare (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on determining (S211) that each of one or more NRFs of a mobile communication network system has become unavailable, switching (S213) to an NRF-unavailable state in which a validation of an NF service consumer based on an access token for a service request towards an NF service producer is relaxed is performed. The service request is sent (S215) towards the NF service produce...