US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 19 for "Network nodes and methods therein for providing backup network function" (Chinese, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,344, issued on May 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Network nodes and methods therein for providing backup network function" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai), Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden), Gang Ren (Shanghai) and Xiao Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method in a network node implementing a Network Function, NF. The method includes: transmitting, to another NF, information indicating an identifier, ID, of each of one or more backup entities for one or more contexts in the NF. The information is included in a binding indication or a separate indicat...