US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 15 for "Session management apparatus, user plane apparatus, and access mobile management apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,657, issued on July 15, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Session management apparatus, user plane apparatus, and access mobile management apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Minokuchi (Tokyo) and Tooru Uchino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session management apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a user plane apparatus, a time offset between a TSN time of a TSN time domain and a 5G time, and identification information of the TSN time domain; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station apparatus, a TSC assistance information determined based on the time offset and the i...