ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,354, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Deploying network functions of a network slice" was invented by Xavier Peuziat (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to techniques for concurrent deployment of a set of network function (NF) instances of a network slice. In some examples, each NF instance may be registered at the NRF with its status indicator set to DEPLOYING. Further, a determination may be performed if a first NF instance is waiting to be deployed and deployment of the first NF instance is dependent on a second NF instance ...