US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on April 1 for "Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" (Portuguese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,218, issued on April 1, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs" was invented by Stephen Mwanje (Munich) and Joao Antonio Pereira Rodrigues (Amadora, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means configured to: receive a set of service offer descriptors, the service offer descriptor set defining one or more attributes, at least one of the attributes being associated with a plurality of different options, the set of service offer descriptors being associated with a service provider; receive a set of service requirements for a service to be provided, sai...