US Patent Issued to NEC on Oct. 28 for "Communication system and methods that adapt RRC procedures to a 5G network implementing network slicing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,548, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication system and methods that adapt RRC procedures to a 5G network implementing network slicing" was invented by Sivapathalingham Sivavakeesar (Tokyo) and Sadafuku Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is disclosed in which a number of procedures may be performed between user equipment, a base station, and/or the core network in the context of network slicing. The procedures support, for example efficient configuration of paging areas, roaming, access restriction, mobility, setting up of dual mode connectivity, connection re-establishme...