ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,214, issued on June 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Terminal device, application server, network exposure function node and methods therein" was invented by He Zhou (Guangzhou, China) and Jingrui Tao (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a terminal device. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110) to a Network Exposure Function, NEF, node a Quality of Service, QoS, request including an Internet Protocol, IP, address of the terminal device and information enabling the NEF node to determine an identifier of the terminal device."

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