US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 8 for "Selecting a network slice identifier" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,322, issued on July 8, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Selecting a network slice identifier" was invented by Peter Hedman (Helsingborg, Sweden), Lars-Bertil Olsson (Angered, Sweden) and Peter Ramle (Molnlycke, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During PDN connection establishment in the EPC, a UE and a session management entity (SME) (e.g., PGW-C+SMF) exchange information. In case the SME supports more than one S-NSSAI, before the SME provides an S-NSSAI to the UE, the SME should check such that the selected S-NSSAI is among the UE's subscribed S-NSSAIs by retrieving the Subscribed S-NSSAI from ...