ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,077, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Status event handling associated with a session management function (SMF) node" was invented by Qian Chen (Molndal, Sweden), Yunjie Lu (Shanghai) and Juying Gan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for DDD status event handling with I-SMF improvement. In one embodiment, a session management function, SMF, node is provided. The SMF node includes processing circuitry configured to receive a subscription request to an event associated with the SMF node where the subscription request includes at least one of a packet det...