ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,690, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network slice determination method and related apparatus" was invented by Yifan Yu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a network slice (NSL) determination method. Based on the method, a service server may actively initiate a slice establishment request in response to determining a service requirement for establishing an NSL, the slice establishment request including a service quality parameter supporting the service requirement. A terminal may acquire a first device trigger request corresponding ...