US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 22 for "Optimizing network slices using service profile aggregation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,654, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Optimizing network slices using service profile aggregation" was invented by Logaina Michel Ramzy Boulos (St. Laurent, Canada), Fadi Bishay (Laval, Canada) and Hesham Sedky (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving a request for a slice, in a network, with the request having requirements defining a Service Profile; determining if there are any existing slice instances in the network that are created for an Aggregate Service Profile having similar requirements; responsive to the Aggregate Service Profile having sim...