US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Jan. 28 for "Methods, function manager and orchestration node of managing a port type" (Swedish, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,457, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods, function manager and orchestration node of managing a port type" was invented by Staffan Blau (Spanga, Sweden), Calin Curescu (Hasselby, Sweden), Magnus Bjorkqvist (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Arturo Martin de Nicolas (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to e.g. a method performed by an orchestration node for managing network interfaces. The orchestration node sends to a function manager, trunk-port specific information of a trunk port to enable the function manager to unambiguously orchestrate trunk ports."

The p...