ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,270, issued on May 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Masking of privacy related information for network services" was invented by Abdulrahman Alabbasi (Kista, Sweden) and Massimo Condoluci (Solna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a service consumer which is requesting to utilize a network service provided by a service provider in a cellular network. The method includes, at the service consumer, transmitting a service request to the service provider, the service request including a privacy indication indicating that a privacy related information necessary as input for the...