US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 28 for "User plane function configured to prioritize using a preferred internet protocol to establish a connection between user device and host server" (Kansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,191, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"User plane function configured to prioritize using a preferred internet protocol to establish a connection between user device and host server" was invented by Cesare Natale (Frisco, Texas) and Saravana Velusamy (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user plane function (UPF) of a telecommunications network configured to prioritize IPv6 addresses over IPv4 addresses for transmitting content over the telecommunications network from a content server to a user device. The UPF can receive a content request at including a uniform resource locator ...