ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,759, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network access control method, SDF, CP, UP, and network system" was invented by Xueting Xia (Nanjing, China) and Jianshu Shao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device having at least one processor and one or more non-transitory memories storing programming instructions that are associated with a steering decision function (SDF) in a network system and including instructions to obtain a carrier-grade network address translation (CGN) resource pool by receiving CGN resources reported by a plurality of user planes (UPs), where...