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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2018
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Per Skillermark, Årsta, SE;

Thomas Rimhagen, Linköping, SE;

Jingcheng Zhang, Svärtinge, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04L 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A gateway (), arranged for providing cloud connectivity to a network of communicatively interconnected network nodes. The gateway () comprises a backend function ()and a plurality of physical frontend devices (), for deployment in the network. The frontend devices () communicatively connect()to the backend function () for exchanging messages between a network node and the backend function (). The backend function () is common to the plurality of frontend devices () and arranged in a at least one server of a plurality of operatively connected servers, that may form part of the cloud, thereby providing for 'cloud processing' or 'virtual processing' of the messages for exchange thereof with the cloud. The physical frontend devices () may be designed to comprise transceiver functionality.


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