US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 4 for "Untrusted data collection coordination function" (Swedish, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,419, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Untrusted data collection coordination function" was invented by Pinar Comak (Ankara, Turkey), Christine Jost (Dalby, Sweden), Ferhat Karakoc (Istanbul), Stefan Hakansson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ulf Mattsson (Kungsbacka, Sweden) and Zhang Fu (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection coordination function, DCCF, network node receives (1a) a request for data from a data consumer, determines (2) a data source for the requested data, verifies (3a, 3b) with a network node that the data consumer and the DCCF are authorized by the data...