US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on May 20 for "Predictive user plane function (UPF) load balancing based on network data analytics" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,640, issued on May 20, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Predictive user plane function (UPF) load balancing based on network data analytics" was invented by Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, Texas), Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Broadlands, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for selecting, in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular telecommunication network, a User Plane Function (UPF) of a plurality of UPFs on which to anchor a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session of a new user equipment (UE) newly appearing on the cellular telecommunication network. The s...