US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Nov. 11 for "Distributed network edge security architecture" (German, Canadian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,915, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Distributed network edge security architecture" was invented by Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany), George Foti (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada), Bengt Sahlin (Espoo, Finland) and Mary Amarisa Robison (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented by a security relay node in a Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN, wherein the method comprising the steps of receiving, from a Network Function, NF, within the PLMN, a control packet to be provided to a further PLMN, relaying said control packet to a remote security node for delivery ...