ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,809, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Group identities in a communication system" was invented by Prashanti Das (Bangalore, India) and Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for providing services in a communication system are disclosed. A request for a service provided by a service function entity in a network system is received, wherein the request indicates an identity of a user for which the service is requested. An identity of a group of service function entities capable of serving the user and determined based on the identity of the...