ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,104, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).
"Network slicing group" was invented by Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide novel approaches to handling network slice groups in access stratum and non-access stratum communications in a cellular communication network. Novel slice identification schema can support group-level identification of groups of network slices without individually listing the network slices. Some embodiments implement a slice identifier that supports wildcard slice/service type (SST) options and/or wildcard sl...