US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for providing application and subscription aware user plane function selection, steering, and anchoring" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,591, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for providing application and subscription aware user plane function selection, steering, and anchoring" was invented by Lap Tse (Marietta, Ga.), Massimiliano Troiani (Frisco, Texas), David Taft (Keller, Texas) and Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for an application, and may receive, from the UE, parameters of the application and key performance indicator (KPI) targets for the application. The device may receive, based o...