US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 13 for "Method and network node for port management" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,421, issued on May 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and network node for port management" was invented by Wenliang Xu (Shanghai) and Bo Zhang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method in a Network Exposure Function, NEF. The method includes: receiving, from an Application Function, AF, a request for dynamically reserving a Reliable Data Service, RDS, port resource in association with a Non-Internet Protocol 'IP' Data Delivery, NIDD, configuration, the request containing an indication indicating whether the reserving of the RDS port resource...