US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Differentiating the foreground and background data traffic over a network slice" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,172, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Differentiating the foreground and background data traffic over a network slice" was invented by Srinivas Kote Narasimhamurthy (San Marcos, Calif.), Oleg M. Moskalenko (Ben Lomond, Calif.), Muthukumaran Dhanapal (San Diego), Ying Huang (San Diego) and Ajoy K. Singh (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) for differentiating the foreground and background data traffic over a network slice is provided. The UE operates by determining whether an application running in a foreground state transitions to running in a background state, wher...