US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Nov. 11 for "Internet protocol version 4-to-version 6 redirect forapplication function-specific user endpoint identifiers" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,618, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Internet protocol version 4-to-version 6 redirect forapplication function-specific user endpoint identifiers" was invented by Shahram Mohajeri (Kirkland, Wash.) and Thomas Cannon (Fallbrook, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for an IPV4-to-IPv6 redirect to enable use of application function-specific user endpoint identifiers (AF-specific UEIds). In one example, a method performed by a processing system includes receiving, from an application function of a communication...