US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Dec. 30 for "Method for notification of network function producer (NFp) quality" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,217, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method for notification of network function producer (NFp) quality" was invented by Athanasios Karapantelakis (Solna, Sweden), Ioannis Fikouras (Stockholm) and Peter Woerndle (Wangen im Allgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides new parameters for discovery request messages and discovery response messages communicated between a Network Function (NF) consumer (an NFc) (100) and a Network Repository Function (NRF) (130) in a core network. The new parameters support the discovery and selection of one or more NF servi...