ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,727, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Security service orchestration function between communication service providers" was invented by Anu Puhakainen (Espoo, Finland), Harri Hakala (Turku, Finland) and Ari Pietikainen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a security service orchestration function (SSOF) in a communication infrastructure, that includes a plurality of communication service providers (CSPs), for orchestration of a security service level agreement (S-SLA) includes receiving a S-SLA request, by a CSP, from one or more other CSPs. Each ...