US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on March 24 for "Methods and apparatus supporting dynamic ethernet VLAN configuration in a fifth generation system" (Swedish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,084, issued on March 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus supporting dynamic ethernet VLAN configuration in a fifth generation system" was invented by Ala Nazari (Handen, Sweden), Gyorgy Miklos (Pilisborosjeno, Hungary) and Kun Wang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for a 5G System (5GS) (20) support Dynamic VLAN configuration for a logical Ethernet bridge (24) provided by the 5GS. In at least one embodiment, a User Plane Function (UPF) (22) runs, on a conditional basis, for example, Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) for a User Equ...