ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,342, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Method and apparatus for indirect data forwarding" was invented by Ting Zhu (Shanghai), Yunjie Lu (Shanghai), Deqin Zhan (Shanghai) and Wu Wang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for indirect data forwarding. A method at a mobility management node comprises sending, to a serving gateway entity in the first system, a request for creating an indirect data forwarding tunnel. The request comprises an indication flag for indicating to the serving gateway entity that an indir...