US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 23 for "DNS-based discovery of MMES in an MME pool" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,351, issued on June 23, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"DNS-based discovery of MMES in an MME pool" was invented by Kameswaran Arunachalam (Redmond, Wash.) and Kunal Prakash Barawkar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a serving gateway (SGW) of a telecommunications network that is configured to receive from a first mobility management entity (MME) of an MME pool of the telecommunications network a request associated with a user equipment (UE). Subsequent to the receiving, the SGW determines the first MME or a link between first MME and SGW has failed. The SGW then queries a domain...