ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,306, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Route configuration method and apparatus" was invented by Qi Yao (Beijing), Zaifeng Zong (Nanjing, China), Qianghua Zhu (Beijing) and Wenfu Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route configuration method includes that after a first terminal moves out of a service scope of a user plane function (UPF) that currently provides a service for the first terminal, a first session management function (SMF) inserts a first intermediate UPF (I-UPF) into a user plane path of the first terminal, and configures, for the first I-UPF, a first routing...