ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,937, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Configuring network slices" was invented by Bilgehan Erman (Weekhawken, N.J.) and Sameerkumar Sharma (Holmdel, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein relate to various methods, systems and apparatuses that can be used to define a network slice based on descriptions of the computing functions involved in a network service, and to configure the network slice using resources that are associated with the descriptions. For example, a network slice may be defined based on whether the network service requires tunneling or data encr...