ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,676, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Network node" was invented by Teruaki Toeda (Tokyo) and Kenji Kai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node is a first network node of a communication system including a user device and a plurality of network nodes, the network node including a reception unit that receives an inter-node message relating to a configuration of the user device from a second network node; a determination unit that determines whether a manner of updating the configuration of the user device is a full configuration or a delta configuration based on the inter-node message; and an upd...