US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for generating network policy decisions for data sessions" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,376, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for generating network policy decisions for data sessions" was invented by Barry F. Hoffner (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, by a policy control function (PCF), a first message including presence reporting area (PRA) information and status information identifying a type of network coverage associated with the PRA information. The method may also include determining, by the PCF, a policy for a user equipment (UE) device data session ba...