ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,803, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Network-initiated connection transfer" was invented by Alexandre S. Stojanovski (Paris) and Muthaiah Venkatachalam (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, computer-readable media, and methods for switching user plane function nodes associated with connections in communication systems are described. Some embodiments include moving one or more existing traffic flows from a first connection with a data network to a second connection with the data network, wherein the first connection at least partially overlaps, in time, with the second ...