US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 25 for "Methods and means for providing access to external networks" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,313, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and means for providing access to external networks" was invented by Patrik Salmela (Espoo, Finland), Mohit Sethi (Helsinki), Andrey Shorov (Vantaa Uusimaa, Finland) and Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and means for providing a UE access to an external network are disclosed. In the methods it is determined that a that a secondary authentication procedure is required in order for the UE to access the external network, and then providing, to an entity of the external network, information relating t...