US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus for system providing multicast services" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,623, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for system providing multicast services" was invented by Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and Horst Thomas Belling (Erding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique comprising: receiving, at a session management function, information by which is identifiable a plurality of multicast service areas for a multicast session managed by the session management function; and directing towards a radio access network node an indication of the plurality of multicast service areas; wherein the plurality of multicast service areas ...