ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,278, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Managing a node in a communication network" was invented by Henrik Ryden (Stockholm), David Sandberg (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Mats Zachrison (Orebro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a first node in a communication network is disclosed, wherein the first node is operable to exchange traffic flows with other nodes in the communication network. The method includes using a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to generate a predicted traffic distribution for the first node, wherein the VAE has been trained using information ab...