US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Reducing IMS network congestion when a node in the IMS network becomes unavailable" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,963, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Reducing IMS network congestion when a node in the IMS network becomes unavailable" was invented by Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.), Saqib Badar (Bellevue, Wash.), Joel Arends (Renton, Wash.), Khurram Ahmad Mirza (Bellevue, Wash.) and Marc Proctor (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When operational, a first node of an IMS network handles a registration of a UE on the IMS network, and receives a first request to reregister the UE with the IMS network. The first node creates a registration confirmation, and sends the registration confirmati...