ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,214, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Entities for providing an external service to a network" was invented by Qing Wei (Munich), Riccardo Trivisonno (Munich), Clarissa Marquezan (Munich) and Runze Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. One example method includes: obtaining a clone service invocation request from an other network entity, wherein the clone service invocation request includes clone service invocation information of a clone of a service provided by an external network entity, and providing...