US Patent Issued to Ciena on April 21 for "Dynamic reservation protocol for 5G network slicing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,970, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Dynamic reservation protocol for 5G network slicing" was invented by David Keith Bainbridge (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Raghuraman Ranganathan (Bellaire, Texas) and Lyndon Y. Ong (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic registration system includes a slice registration server communicatively coupled to one or more clients, and to one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), wherein each API is communicatively coupled to an associated network of one or more networks, each network having resources including one or more of transport, compute, ...