US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Evolved packet core (EPC) solution for restricted local operator services (RLOS) access using device authentication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,265, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Evolved packet core (EPC) solution for restricted local operator services (RLOS) access using device authentication" was invented by Abhijeet Kolekar (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Farid Adrangi (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to allowing unauthenticated UEs to gain restricted access to an operator network to access network access subscription service. Once the unauthenticated UE successfully downloads a subscription profile for accessing the operator network, the unauthenticated UE can disconnect and can, thereafter,...