ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,525, issued on April 22, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Network slicing operation" was invented by Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Mahmoud Watfa (Saint Leonard, Canada) and Saad Ahmad (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are provided for a network control node for connecting a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a network slice in a network. The network control node may receive service information associated with a service being requested by the WTRU, wherein the service information comprises one or more of a service class, a quality of service ...