US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 25 for "Charging and collection function in microservices" (Alabama, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,977, issued on March 25, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Charging and collection function in microservices" was invented by James Edward Oliver (Alabaster, Ala.), Ming Mei Lee (Morganville, N.J.) and Debra Sparks (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods for a 3GPP defined Charging and Collection Function are employed that may use a microservices approach. The microservice approach may decompose the function of the network elements into component level functions that may be deployed as separate functional elements."

The patent was filed on April 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/7...