US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Nov. 25 for "Support for data forwarding" (Swedish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,969, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Support for data forwarding" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai) and Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes network elements (NEs), methods at NEs for facilitating data forwarding, and a telecommunications system comprising the NEs. The method at a first network element for facilitating data forwarding may comprise: receiving, from a second network element, a first message comprising a first indicator indicating that a data forwarding function is supported by the second network element. Fur...