US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 13 for "Network function instance selection" (Swedish, Chinese, Finnish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,229, issued on May 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Network function instance selection" was invented by Cheng Wang (Shanghai), David Castellanos Zamora (Madrid), Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Solna, Sweden) and Vesa Torvinen (Sauvo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network equipment in a wireless communication network is configured to receive at least a portion of a subscription concealed identifier, SUCI, for a subscriber. The SUCI contains a concealed subscription permanent identifier, SUPI, for the subscriber. The received at least a portion of the SUCI indicates a sub-domain code, SDC. The ...