US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Beijing) on Feb. 10 for "Coordination of UP path change and AF relocation" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,117, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Coordination of UP path change and AF relocation" was invented by Tingfang Tang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for AF relocation are disclosed. A method performed at an AF comprises receiving, from an SMF, target DN access location information when no DNAI of a target AF is received for DNAI change from the AF to the target AF; and retrieving the target AF according to the received target DN access location information."

The patent was filed on April 6, 2021, under Application No. 18/554,204.

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