Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Method And Apparatus For Network Function Discovery' Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL)

MUMBAI, India, May 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517039184 A) filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm, on April 23, for 'method and apparatus for network function discovery.'

Inventor(s) include Mao, Qingqing; and Lu, Yunjie.

The application for the patent was published on May 16, under issue no. 20/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for NF discovery. A method performed by a first network repository function (NRF) comprises receiving a first network function (NF) discovery request comprising at least one preferred feature to be supported by a target network function fr...