US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 9 for "UE and SMF" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,181, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"UE and SMF" was invented by Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present invention, a communication unit for realizing a function for ATSSS in a 5GS is provided. A UE transmits a PDU session establishment request message including an MA PDU Request indication and ATSSS Capability, and in a case that an MA PDU session is allowed to be established and that only the user plane resources for one of 3GPP access or non-3GPP access are allowed to be established, the UE receives information indicating that the MA PDU ses...