US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 13 for "Allocating network elements to slices of nodes in a network" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,465, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Allocating network elements to slices of nodes in a network" was invented by Bengi Karacali-Akyamac (Bridgewater, N.J.), Md Abdul Alim (White Plains, N.Y.) and Ali Sydney (Pepperell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for allocating network elements to slices of nodes in a network. Dedicated network elements are allocated to slices, defining sets of computational nodes, to provide dedicated paths in the network for the computational nodes in the slices to interconnect with other c...