ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,870, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic session rebalancing across user plane function nodes" was invented by Swapnil Barai (Maharashtra, India), Suyog Subhash Belsare (Maharashtra, India) and Bhavin Desai (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to address imbalance across User Plane Function nodes supporting a network slice. The method includes calculating an average utilization load for a resource for a network slice supported by multiple User Plane Function nodes, identifying an imbalance in utilization of the resource for at least one of the User Plane Functio...