ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,277, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Method and apparatus for network capability exposure" was invented by Jingrui Tao (Guangzhou, China), Yun Zhang (Guangzhou, China) and Fengpei Zhang (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for network capability exposure. A method at a network exposure entity comprises receiving, from a terminal device, a network exposure application programming interface (API) invocation message. The method further comprises validating whether the terminal device is allowed to use the invocated network exposure API. The method ...