ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,634, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Applying rules for routing outgoing traffic at a user device" was invented by Pavan Huggehalli (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing hardware in a user equipment (UE) that communicates with a core network (CN) via a radio access network (RAN) can implement a method of routing outgoing traffic from the UE. The method includes determining a proscribed traffic descriptor which the UE is to match to rules defined by the CN that specify route selection for outgoing traffic (602). The method further inc...