ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,264, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for ensuring deterministic latency of network slice, storage medium, and product" was invented by Lei Bao (Nanjing, China), Xinjun Chen (Nanjing, China) and Zhaoyang Yan (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for ensuring a deterministic latency of a network slice, a storage medium, and a product, and belongs to the field of communication technologies. In this solution, topology information of different network slices can be associated with different gate scheduling periods, and the first devic...