US Patent Issued to ZTE on Oct. 14 for "Methods for reporting usage, and network function and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,812, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods for reporting usage, and network function and storage medium" was invented by Weijie Tang (Shenzhen, China) and Changyi Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for reporting usage, an Intermediate-Session Management Function (I-SMF) entity, a CHarging Function (CHF) entity, a Session Management Function (SMF) entity, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method for reporting usage may include: acquiring address information of a CHarging Function (CHF) entity and a session charging identifier; receiving u...