US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Endpoint selection for placement of network slice(s) in a 5G network" (California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,409, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (Calif.).

"Endpoint selection for placement of network slice(s) in a 5G network" was invented by Arghya Mukherjee (Acton, Mass.), John J Mullooly (Colts Neck, N.J.), Robert Crowe (Apex, N.C.) and Waris Sagheer (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for enabling an end-to-end controller of a network to offload decisions about placement of network slices to the transport controller. By doing so, the transport controller can intelligently determine optimal placement based on intent (e.g., external intent of the end-to-end controller and in...