US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on July 8 for "User plane function selection and hosting for real-time applications" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,320, issued on July 8, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"User plane function selection and hosting for real-time applications" was invented by Harsha Hegde (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing latency in the data path between a source and destination and managing resources in a 5G network are provided. The systems and methods described herein include dynamically selecting user plane functions (UPFs) and/or dynamically placing UPFs at particular locations within the 5G network. In some examples, each UPF in the 5G network is statically placed, and the UPF...