US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 11 for "Method and apparatus for selecting a network cell or frequency influenced by network slicing" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,454, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for selecting a network cell or frequency influenced by network slicing" was invented by Philippe Godin (Versailles, France) and Alessio Casati (West Molescy, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: obtaining, at a user equipment, information on a cell network slice support; determining, for the user equipment a network slice; and selecting one cell supporting the determined network slice based on the information."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2021, under Application No. 17/791,758.

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