ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,472, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Slice authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Zhongding Lei (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a slice authentication method and an apparatus. One example method includes: initiating, by a first network function (NF), slice authentication between a terminal device and an authentication server for a slice; sending, by the first NF, identification information of a first network, identification information of the slice, and identification information of the terminal device to the authentication server, w...