US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for bandwidth allocation in a sliced network" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,497, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for bandwidth allocation in a sliced network" was invented by Tom Bostoen (Antwerp, Belgium) and Benoit Drooghaag (Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to perform, obtaining, a first parameter indicating a contention situation of a first network including a plurality of virtual network operators, VNOs, as part...