ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,997, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for regulating user data traffic in a wireless network" was invented by Hans Bertil Ronneke (Kungsbacka, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein aim to ensure that user data transmissions (e.g., small data transmissions that are sent using control plane messages) do not become excessive and stay infrequent, thereby reducing the likelihood of a network overload situation. In one embodiment, an admission control function (ACF) for regulating the transmission of uplink user data is implement...