US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 27 for "Methods and apparatus for operating and managing a constrained device within a network" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,607, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatus for operating and managing a constrained device within a network" was invented by Jaime Jimenez (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (200) is disclosed for operating a constrained device within a network, the network comprising a firewall deployed between the constrained device and a manager. The method comprises receiving from the manager configuration information for an Attack Vector data Object and a Port Control Protocol (PCP) configuration data Object on the constrained device (210). The configuration in...