ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,821, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).
"Application relocation method and apparatus" was invented by Qi Yao (Beijing) and Zaifeng Zong (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application relocation method and apparatus, to accurately determine a determined target AS and therefore reduce a delay in accessing an application server by a UE. A source application function (AF) obtains first information, where the first information is location information of the UE after a user plane path of a protocol data unit (PDU) session of the UE changes. The source AF determines a target appl...