US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 27 for "Reliability-based service chain instance selection in a 5G network" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,103, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reliability-based service chain instance selection in a 5G network" was invented by Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Maharashtra, India), Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India) and Deepak Bajaj (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reliability-based service chain instance selection in a 5G network includes evaluating, for a service chain provided in a 5G network, the service chain comprising a series of network functions with processing hand-offs and take-overs therebetween, reliability of each service chain i...