US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on Dec. 2 for "Network management apparatus and network management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,162, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Network management apparatus and network management method" was invented by Jin Nakazato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a network management apparatus, comprising: a packet receiving unit configured to receive a packet sent from a user terminal to a core network; an identifier acquisition unit configured to analyze the packet and acquire from the packet a network slice identifier that identifies a network slice used by the user terminal; a base station change determining unit configured to determine whether or not to change a destination ba...