ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,553, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Network device and client device" was invented by Ugur Baran Elmali (Munich), Philippe Godin (Massy, France), Subin Narayanan (Oulu, Finland), Esa Mikael Malkamaki (Espoo, Finland), Salman Nadaf (Munich) and Jarkko Tuomo Koskela (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, a network device is configured to:generate an indicator based on at least one of an activation status of a multicast session or a data inactivity status; and transmit the indicator to a client device, wherein the indicator indicates to the client de...