ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,994, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"User plane selection using reinforcement learning" was invented by Dinand Roeland (Sollentuna, Sweden), Andreas Yokobori Savo (Taby, Sweden) and Jaeseong Jeong (Solna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reinforcement learning is used for placement of a plurality of service functions at nodes of a telecommunications network. The state of the system is defined by an allocation matrix, wherein each first vector of the allocation matrix corresponds to a respective one of the nodes of the telecommunications network, each second vector...