ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,778, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network management method and apparatus" was invented by Jian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaocheng Xing (Xi'an, China) and Man Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a network management method and apparatus, to implement a service level specification SLS goal of a network slice and/or a network slice subnet. The method includes: A first network management producer entity receives first management policy information, and performs a first management policy in the first management policy information which is correspondi...