US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 19 for "Methods and devices for network function discovery in communication network" (Chinese, Spanish, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,832, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and devices for network function discovery in communication network" was invented by Ana Orea Garcia (Madrid), Jorge Garcia Llorente (Madrid), Juan Manuel Fernandez Galmes (Madrid), Qiang Liu (Shanghai), Vlatko Bolt (Zagreb, Croatia) and Wenliang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network function discovery in a communication network is provided. The method includes receiving a discovery request from a first network function NF to request one or more NF instance of a first group type for a first subscriber. Th...