ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,161, issued on July 29, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for network slice traffic identification using dynamic network addressing" was invented by Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas), David Taft (Keller, Texas), Raymond WaiMan So (San Ramon, Calif.) and Lap Tse (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may maintain a list of existing slice identifiers, associated with slices of a core network, that are in use in active UE sessions, and may receive a slice identifier ass...