US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Enhancements for handling network slice quota" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,616, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhancements for handling network slice quota" was invented by Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore) and Krisztian Kiss (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Public Land Mobile Network includes a network slice quota (NSQ) node to implement a quota on the number of user equipments (UEs) or (UE, PDU_Session) pairs that may be registered on a network slice. An access and mobility management function (AMF) queries the NSQ on whether quota is available for registration of a UE on a network slice in response to a not...