ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,818, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Application function node and communication method" was invented by Hiroaki Takano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application function node (10) includes a control unit (13). The control unit (13) acquires session information regarding a PDU session from a UDM node (30), determines, from a plurality of the PDU sessions, a first PDU session for maintaining communication and a second PDU session for stopping communication based on the session information, and requests to stop communication in the determined second PDU session."
The patent was filed on March 5, ...