US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 17 for "Session management function selection and blocking" (Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,545, issued on March 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Session management function selection and blocking" was invented by Kameswaran Arunachalam (Redmond, Wash.), Praveen Singaram Muthukumar (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Kunal Prakash Barawkar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for selecting a session management function (SMF) for establishing a communications session for a user device based on the user device's protocol data network (PDN) type are described herein. An access management function (AMF) may query a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) for SMFs that serve a...