ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,953, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for session management" was invented by Zhansheng Wei (Shanghai), Yingjiao He (Shanghai), Jinyin Zhu (Shanghai) and Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for session management. A method at a control plane function comprises generating an information element to indicate a number of reports that the user plane function can send a usage report to the control plane function. The method further comprises sending the information element t...