US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 22 for "First IMS node, first core network node, second IMS node, and methods performed therein" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,761, issued on July 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"First IMS node, first core network node, second IMS node, and methods performed therein" was invented by Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany), Afshin Abtin (Sollentuna, Sweden), Anders Ryde (Saltsjobaden, Sweden) and Mattias Dahlqvist (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first IP multimedia system, IMS, node (15), for handling a network function in a communication network. The first IMS node (15) requests a first core network node (13) for at least a part of contact information of a network function instance, and recei...