US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 16 for "Best effort service using a non-guaranteed bit rate (non-GBR) bearer" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,824, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Best effort service using a non-guaranteed bit rate (non-GBR) bearer" was invented by Saqib Badar (Bellevue, Wash.), Boris Antsev (Bothell, Wash.), Shujaur Mufti (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Nassereddine Sabeur (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for providing best effort service for voice calls (including video calls) using a non-guaranteed bit rate (GBR) bearer include: receiving, at a proxy node (e.g., a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF)), a request to set up a voice session for a UE; requesting, by the proxy node, a policy ...