US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 27 for "System and method for deployment of 5G and next-generation core with IMS core for real-time applications" (Illinois, Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,181, issued on May 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for deployment of 5G and next-generation core with IMS core for real-time applications" was invented by Chaoxin Qiu (Austin, Texas), Min Lu (Holmdel, N.J.) and Eric Ashby (Batavia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system creates a network element by consolidating a control plane including a combination of a plurality of 5G control plane functions and a plurality of IMS control plane functions with an associated user plane including a combinat...