ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,002, issued on July 29, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Optimization for virtual network group broadcast data traffic processing in mobile networks" was invented by Mahesh Satyanarayana (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for processing broadcast data traffic for a plurality of user equipments (UEs) of a virtual network group are described herein. In one illustrative example, a user plane function may receive a broadcast packet from one of the UEs or a data network; perform a packet detection rule (PDR) lookup for the broadcast packet, for identifying a PDR and a forwar...