US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 23 for "Robust NAS layer signaling" (Swedish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,950, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Robust NAS layer signaling" was invented by Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi (Sollentuna, Sweden), George Foti (Dollard des Ormeaux, Canada) and Qian Chen (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Procedures are provided for robust handling of NAS request messages that contain a spurious information element (IE). The spurious information element could include a NAS message container containing a NAS message with the wrong procedure type, i.e., a procedure type that does not match the type of the parent NAS message. The spurious information eleme...