US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 16 for "Methods and apparatuses for network function discovery" (Swedish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,462, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for network function discovery" was invented by Yong Yang (Kallered, Sweden) and Yunjie Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (400) performed by an NF service consumer. The method includes invoking (s402) a discovery service for discovering NF service producers. Invoking the discovery service comprises: generating (s404) a discovery message (253) comprising a query; and transmitting (s406) to an NRF (204), the discovery message comprising the query. The query included in the discovery message (253) com...