US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 22 for "Methods and apparatuses for network function discovery" (Swedish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,071, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for network function discovery" was invented by Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden) and Yunjie Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity generates a discovery request and transmit the discovery request to a network repository entity, NRE, wherein, advantageously, the discovery request includes a set of query parameters, the set of query parameters comprising a set of candidate network entity identifiers (IDs) comprising at least a first candidate network entity ID (e.g., an I-SMF instance ID), wherein eac...