US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 27 for "Control plane user plane (CUPS) capabilities exchange" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,504, issued on May 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Control plane user plane (CUPS) capabilities exchange" was invented by Sean Simon (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Frank Herrgoss (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information identifying each version of a policy rule base to which a control plane architecture of a wireless network has access; obtaining second information identifying each version of a policy rule base to which a user plane architecture of the wireless network has access; selecting as a selected version a com...