US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 1 for "Facilitation of deep service path discovery for 5G or other next generation network" (New Jersey, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,043, issued on July 1, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitation of deep service path discovery for 5G or other next generation network" was invented by Seyed Hashemi (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Abbas Kiani (Aberdeen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software defined network (SDN) can add network repository functions (NRF) into a configurations database to enable NF discovery. The SDN can subscribe to NRF notifications to receive new cloud native functions (CNF), registrations, or any other update to the CNF status in 5G system. In addition to listening to NRF notifications, the SDN can implement CNF poo...