US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 9 for "Control apparatus in communication system and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,472, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus in communication system and control method therefor" was invented by Hiroaki Takano (Tokyo), Hiroto Kuriki (Tokyo), Shinichiro Tsuda (Tokyo), Tomoaki Matsumura (Tokyo) and Hirofumi Kasai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To flexibly control the number of user planes in a communication system.In the communication system, a base station located on a local area network is connected to at least one user plane function located on a cloud. Whether or not to add a new user plane function is determined in consideration of an amount of traffic of user da...