ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,705, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Estimation of router that is cause of silent failures" was invented by Shinya Kita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a router estimation system and a router estimation method which enable accurate estimation of a router in network slices that is a cause of a silent failure. A policy manager (90) identifies, when a plurality of function elements are determined to have deteriorated in performance in slice communication, for each of the plurality of function elements determined to have deteriorated in performance, a group of routers located on a route...