ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,316, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for media session management for service enabler architecture layer (SEAL) architecture" was invented by Shuai Zhao (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and a vertical application layer (VAL) server for a media session management in wireless communication. The method includes obtaining session description protocol (SDP) information within a session initiation protocol (SIP) payload associated with a media s...