ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,181, issued on July 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and systems for performing reservations with overbooking" was invented by Suresh Babu Ambati (Guntur, India), Magnus Wedelin (Karlshamn, Sweden), Alexandre Carvalho Lousada (Lyckeby, Sweden) and Leila Negris Bezerra (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for reserving resources in a telecommunication network. The method including: receiving, at a node, a first service request to reserve a quantity of resources from a subscriber's first account, wherein the quantity of resources requeste...