ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,973, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Multisession PAP/CHAP support for WWC" was invented by David Ian Allan (Victoria, Canada) and Stefan Rommer (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing multiple sets of legacy credentials to be applied to one subscription in a 5th generation (5G) system, where a subscriber initiates via legacy wireline access to the 5G system, multiple communications sessions each requiring respective different credential. The method comprises receiving, at a gateway function of the 5G system, subscriber legacy wireline acce...