US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 22 for "SMF discoverability management based on connectivity to peer network functions" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,653, issued on July 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"SMF discoverability management based on connectivity to peer network functions" was invented by Narayanan Govindan Kasi (Olathe, Kan.) and Saravana Velusamy (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to managing discoverability of Session Management Functions (SMFs) in mobile networks based on connectivity to peer network functions (NFs). In particular, the systems, devices, and techniques can be implemented in fifth generation (5G) mobile networks to provide capability for an SMF to mo...