US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for managing charging operations for a communication network" (Indian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,496, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for managing charging operations for a communication network" was invented by Robert Tornkvist (Karlskrona, Sweden), Karthikeyan Chandrasekar (Chennai, India) and Sandeep Khemka (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a charging system associated with a communication network grants a charging request, with the response including a granted quota of units for authorizing consumption of the involved communication service by a user device, along with an indication of whether the granted quota applies on an i...