US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 14 for "Method and apparatus of failure handling for traffic steering" (Swedish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,880, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus of failure handling for traffic steering" was invented by Yumei Song (Gothenburg, Sweden), Fuencisla Garcia Azorero (Madrid), Susana Fernandez Alonso (Madrid) and Hong Zhang (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for handling failure during traffic steering are provided. In embodiments disclosed herein, a Session Management Function (SMF), a Policy Control Function (PCF), a Packet Data Network Gateway Control Plane (PGW-C), a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), and/or a User Plane ...