US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Aug. 19 for "System and method for offering network slice as a service" (New Jersey, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,959, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for offering network slice as a service" was invented by Abbas Kiani (Aberdeen, N.J.) and Seyed Hashemi (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes defining a first specification for a first network slice, determining a first equilibrium value for a first time period for the first network slice offering, receiving a first bid price for the first network slice for the first time period from a first customer, comparing the first equilibrium value to the first bid price; and providing services using the network sl...