MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544043633 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, Finland, on May 5, for 'methods, apparatuses, computer programs and/or systems for node selection.'

Inventor(s) include Ece Goshi; Afsaneh Gharouni; and Srilatha Ramachandran.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "There are provided methods, apparatuses and computer program products for node selection, such as node selection for federated learning based on for example receiving federated learning, FL, task information, generating a distributed nodes list indicating distributed nodes for contributing to a requested FL training, and transmitting the distributed nodes list, and updating the stored availability information corresponding to the set of distributed nodes indicated in the distributed nodes list, wherein generating the distributed nodes list is based on a comparison of the characteristics of the requested FL training with stored characteristics of the plurality of distributed nodes and on stored availability information corresponding to the plurality of distributed nodes."

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