ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,309, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Network function selection" was invented by Thomas Theimer (Baierbrunn, Germany) and Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method, comprising querying a network repository function to provide a respective identifier of each of one or more network functions; selecting a selected identifier of the one or more identifiers received in response to the querying; requesting a service from the network function identified by the selected identifier, wherein each of the network functions provides the service and fulfil...