US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Binding indications for load balancing and redundancy for communications between network function instances in a 5G core network" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,268, issued on March 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Binding indications for load balancing and redundancy for communications between network function instances in a 5G core network" was invented by Ravi Shekhar (Maharastra, India), Ameo Ghosh (Maharashtra, India) and Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a Fifth Generation (5G) network having an enhanced SBA (eSBA) architecture, a message with a header used to signal binding information (e.g. HTTP custom header for 3gpp-Sbi-Binding) may be received at a recipient NF (service) instance in a direct communication or via...