US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Aug. 5 for "Separation of network function and its realization" (Irish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,791, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Separation of network function and its realization" was invented by Cormac Mullally (County Roscommon, Ireland), Michael Lundkvist (Linkoping, Sweden), Brian Sweeney (Dysart County Roscommon, Ireland) and Dermot Melia (Westmeath, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node modifies an association between the 3GPP defined Network Functions (NFs) and one or more cloud-native services thereby changing how those NFs are realized by the cloud-native services. To accomplish this, the node (200) "decouples" the NFs from the cloud-native serv...