US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 1 for "System and method for using software defined networking in internet protocol multimedia subsystems" (New Jersey, Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,572, issued on July 1, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for using software defined networking in internet protocol multimedia subsystems" was invented by Reuben Klein (East Brunswick, N.J.), Brian Dean Freeman (Farmingdale, N.J.), Larry B. Pearson (San Antonio) and Leopold B. Strahs (Williamsburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software Defined Networking (SDN) is used in IMS in order to provide a mechanism to forward (Internet Protocol) IP packets and provide a simplified solution to the complex signaling path of IMS according to directives from an SDN Controller. SDN is used in at lea...