US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Oct. 27 for "Automatically activating a dedicated network slice for emergencies" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,316, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Automatically activating a dedicated network slice for emergencies" was invented by Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method includes receiving a message from a mobile device of a user that initiates a virtual handshake, wherein the user is not a first responder, sending, in response to a completion of the virtual handshake, a first instruction that causes the mobile device to modify a setting of the mobile device to facilitate access to a slice of a communicatio...