US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 16 for "Partial support of access network information" (Spanish, Swedish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,856, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Partial support of access network information" was invented by Fuencisla Garcia Azorero (Madrid), Susana Fernandez Alonso (Madrid), Hong Zhang (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Yunjie Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method performed by a Session Management Function (SMF) for providing Access Network (AN) are disclosed. In some embodiments the method comprises receiving from a Policy Control Function (PCF) a request for AN information. The method also includes determining whether the AN does not support reporting of the r...