Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Selection Of User Plane Function Providing A Selected User Plane Functionality' Filed by Rakuten Symphony, Inc.; and Rakuten Mobile, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441010774 A) filed by Rakuten Symphony, Inc.; and Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, on Feb. 15, 2024, for 'selection of user plane function providing a selected user plane functionality.'

Inventor(s) include Manmeet Singh Bhangu; Sumanmishra Prabhat; Akarsh Srivastava; Sayyedfahad Ahmed; and Ryo Watanabe.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a Network Repository Function (NRF). The NRF is configured to receive, from at least one user plane function (UPF), a profile registration request. The profile registration request comprises a plurality of attributes supported by the at least one UPF. The plurality of attributes at least comprise one or more of: Network Address Translation (NAT) functionality, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection, Domain Name Service (DNS) spoofing, packet inspection functionality, energy saving, one or more hardware configurations, and operator specific string. The NRF is further configured to register the profile of the at least one UPF based on the plurality of attributes supported by UPF network function (NF) of the at least one UPF. The NRF is then configured to transmit a registration response indicating the registration of the UPF."

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