US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on April 29 for "Method and apparatus for use in communication networks having control and management planes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,659, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for use in communication networks having control and management planes" was invented by Konstantinos Samdanis (Munich), Christian Mannweiler (Munich), Cinzia Sartori (Pullach, Germany) and Fabio Giust (Pullach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique, comprising: creating at a management plane of a communication network a register of services and/or a register of producers of services in the communication network; and based on at least one of the registers, providing to a consumer information about one or more pr...