ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,793, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Alarm method and apparatus" was invented by Zhuoming Li (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: sending, by a first service entity, a first request to a second service entity, where the first service entity is configured to manage a network slice instance, and the second service entity is configured to manage an alarm of a network function instance, where the first request includes identifier information of a VNF instance; the first request is used to request a virtualized resource alarm carrying the identifier information;...