US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 14 for "Static selection of a session management function or user plane function in a 5G core network" (Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,631, issued on July 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Static selection of a session management function or user plane function in a 5G core network" was invented by Praveen Singaram Muthukumar (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Aziz Motiwala (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for statically selecting a session management function (SMF) or a user plane function (UPF) for a user equipment are described. A mobile device (UE) may transmit a connection request to a 5G core network. A static selection user interface receives inputs of UE and an SMF to associate with the UE. When the UE trans...