US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for service charging in a communication network utilizing consumption control information for a plurality of devices with share a subscription" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,669, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for service charging in a communication network utilizing consumption control information for a plurality of devices with share a subscription" was invented by Nicklas Andersson (Lyckeby, Sweden), Peter Skarphagen (Lyckeby, Sweden) and Jenny Osterling (Ronneby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Charging operations carried out in relation to service consumption by users of a communication network reduce signaling overhead and memory or storage requirements by adopting a bifurcated approach to structuring and accessing ...