ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,752, issued on May 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"UE-initiated in-band policy activation for flow-based policies" was invented by Thorsten Lohmar (Aachen, Germany) and Bastian Cellarius-Toups (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a User Plane Function (UPF) comprising receiving from a Policy Control Function (PCF), an instruction to create a new Packet Detection Rule (PDR), the instruction comprising an IP address for the wireless device, a value of a ToS field, and a quality-of-service, QoS, reference or charging policy. The method further comprises storing the IP addre...