ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,821, issued on March 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Reuse of IP addresses" was invented by Wen Zhang (Shanghai), Yingjiao He (Shanghai) and Wenliang Xu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes network elements, methods at the network elements for facilitating reuse of IP address, a telecommunications system comprising the network elements. The method at a first network element for facilitating reuse of an IP address at multiple UEs comprising a first UE comprises: transmitting, to a second network element, a first request message associated with the first UE, ...