US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 14 for "Data path selection in mobile network using user plane function peer information" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,811, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data path selection in mobile network using user plane function peer information" was invented by Souvik Mondal (Karnataka, India), Sujin Kumar Anagani (Morrisville, N.C.), Sudeep Kumar Pandey (Acton, Mass.), Krishna Kishore Venkata Dubagunta (Karnataka, India) and Naveen Kumar Sampath (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: at user plane functions (UPFs) of a network, creating a multicast group of the UPFs to enable inter-UPF communication between the UPFs in a multicast domain and, by each UPF: exchanging messages with pe...