US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Network layer support for 5G edge computing sticky services" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,137, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network layer support for 5G edge computing sticky services" was invented by Linda Dunbar (Plano, Texas) and Kaippallimalil Mathew John (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used by an egress router is disclosed. The egress router receives a first packet from an initial ingress router addressed to an anycast address of an application server. The egress router transmits the first packet to the application server. The egress router receives a second packet from the application server. The second packet is addressed to the initia...