US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 28 for "Serving gateway selection based on packet data network type" (Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,549, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Serving gateway selection based on packet data network type" was invented by Praveen Singaram Muthukumar (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Rahul Pal (Bellevue, Wash.), Rushabhkumar Patel (Newcastle, Wash.) and Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for efficient serving gateway and packet data gateway selections are described. A mobile device may attempt transmit an attach request to a network requesting packet data services in a particle protocol. A control plane of a serving gateway may receive the attach re...