ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,242, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Soliciting and providing data based on diversity requirements for network apparatus" was invented by Guillaume Decarreau (Munich) and Peter Szilagyi (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a network apparatus configured to receive a request for data to be provided to an apparatus, the request comprising at least one diversity requirement for the requested data; solicit data using the at least one diversity requirement; receive the solicited data; and provide the solicited data to the apparatus."

The patent was filed on Jan. 1...