US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 4 for "Mobile network user plane with access network user plane function" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,771, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Mobile network user plane with access network user plane function" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Constantine Dimitrios-Polychronopoulos (Saratoga, Calif.) and Arda Akman (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method comprises executing, by an access network user plane function (ANUP) for a mobile network, an access network protocol to implement a connection with a user equipment (UE); implementing, by the ANUP, based on session data received from a control plane function of a mobile core network for the mob...