US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Aug. 26 for "Network slicing including modeling, distribution, traffic engineering and maintenance" (American, Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,569, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network slicing including modeling, distribution, traffic engineering and maintenance" was invented by Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram (Ashburn, Va.), Tarek Saad (Ottawa), Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.), Chandrasekar Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Srihari Ramachandra Sangli (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques describe network slicing in computer networks. For example, a node receives a slice policy definition. The slice policy definition comprising a slice selector to identify packets belonging to one or more network ...