ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,942, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Packet detection rules derived from ethernet forwarding information" was invented by Gyorgy Miklos (Pilisborosjeno, Hungary), Balazs Varga (Budapest, Hungary) and Janos Farkas (Kecskemet, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to obtaining and using Packet Detection Rules (PDRs) in a cellular communications system operating as virtual Ethernet bridge based on Ethernet forwarding information. In one embodiment, a method performed by a User Plane Function (UPF) for enabling a cellular communica...