US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on June 24 for "Remote user plane deployment and configuration" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,208, issued on June 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Remote user plane deployment and configuration" was invented by David Midkiff (Port Angeles, Wash.) and Douglas Eng (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes providing, by a processing system including a processor, a controller function for a user plane function (UPF) of a communication network; the controller function facilitates automated procedures for authentication, deployment, configuration, testing, and/or controlling availability of the UPF, independent o...