ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,971, issued on May 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for optimized discovery of a network device" was invented by Emerando M. Delos Reyes (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, Texas) and Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive a subscription request to subscribe to receive an event notification based on an event. The event may be associated with the network device receiving a request for discovery of a unified data management (UDM) device. The req...