US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 30 for "Obtaining information pertaining to a network function in lawful interception" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,259, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Obtaining information pertaining to a network function in lawful interception" was invented by Domenico Raffaele Cione (Caserta, Italy), Elvira Villani (Salerno, Italy), Biagio Maione (Naples, Italy), Dario De Vito (Mercato San Severino, Italy) and Daniele Gaito (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lawful interception provisioning function, LIPF (113) and a system information retrieval function, SIRF (114), communicate with each other via the X1 and X2 protocols. The LIPF (113) obtains, from the SIRF (114), information pertaining...