MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544040296 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, Finland, on April 25, for 'network energy saving.'

Inventor(s) include Dileep Kumar.; and Muhammad Tayyab.

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: "A method, apparatus and computer program is described comprising: receiving a network function request; receiving a request from a base station to allow the base station to use an energy saving mode; determining whether to allow the base station to use an energy saving mode of one or more energy saving modes, wherein the one or more energy saving modes comprise at least a first energy saving mode; responsive to determining to not allow the base station to use an energy saving mode of the one or more energy saving modes, rejecting the request to allow the base station to use an energy saving mode; responsive to determining to allow the base station to use the first energy saving mode, providing to the base station an indication of second base station specific duration, wherein the base station is permitted to use the first energy saving mode during the second base station specific duration; and, responsive to providing to the base station an indication of a second base station specific duration, rejecting the network function request for the second base station specific duration."

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