US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 18 for "Evolved packet core to 5G core roaming using N9 interface" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,274, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Evolved packet core to 5G core roaming using N9 interface" was invented by Irfan Ali (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ravi Shankar Mantha (Bangalore, India), Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.) and Jis Abraham (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for supporting roaming between LTE EPC network and 5G network of a first mobile network operator by 5GC network of a second network operator. The system may include the EPC network including a serving gateway in communication with a 4G base station being in the EPC network. The system m...