ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,541, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Report control method and apparatus, device, medium, and computer program product" was invented by Chunshan Xiong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A report control method includes: transmitting, by a session management function (SMF), control information to an edge application server discovery function (EASDF), the control information being used for banning, stopping, or reducing transmission of a report to the SMF by the EASDF."

The patent was filed on Nov. 17, 2022, under Application No. 17/989,473.

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