US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Dec. 2 for "Status registration of packet routing nodes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,168, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Status registration of packet routing nodes" was invented by Muhammad W. Afzal (Bellevue, Wash.) and Suliman Albasheir (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for establishing a data traffic session for a user equipment (UE) on a network (e.g., a 4G or 5G cellular network) includes: receiving, by a session management node, from the UE, a request to set up the data traffic session; establishing the data traffic session with a first packet routing node; receiving, by the session management node, from a network repository or the first packet ...