US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 18 for "Network management method and system for a shared radio access network, RAN, infrastructure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,350, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Network management method and system for a shared radio access network, RAN, infrastructure" was invented by Konstantinos Samdanis (Heidelberg, Germany) and Xavier Costa Perez (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing network management for a shared Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure provided by a mobile network operator includes managing the shared RAN infrastructure by a master operator network manager of the mobile network operator; and allocating, by the master operator network manager upon receiving service requests from one or m...