ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,593, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Alianza Inc. (Pleasant Grove, Utah).
"To core network functions" was invented by Leland Douglas Benson (Louisville, Colo.), David Reekie (Enfield, Great Britain), Benjamin Thomas Wright (Enfield, Great Britain), Matthew Ian Ronald Williams (Enfield, Great Britain) and Richard Hewitt (Enfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a control plane Interworking Function (IWF-C) is used to establish a Packet Data Unit (PDU) session in a data communications network. A create session request is received, for example from a Mobile Management Entity (MME). A create session managem...