US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 14 for "Using edge nodes as proxies to select UPF positioning" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,932, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Using edge nodes as proxies to select UPF positioning" was invented by Suliman Albasheir (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orchestration tool determines optimal user plane function (UPF) positioning by using edge nodes as proxy for UPF performance prediction. A disclosed solution includes: using a plurality of edge nodes as proxies to predict performance of a UPF, which has not yet been built, for routing data packets to a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) from locations of each of the plurality of edge nodes; selecting, by an o...