US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 1 for "5G to Wi-Fi network slice mapping" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,893, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"5G to Wi-Fi network slice mapping" was invented by Shailender Potharaju (Fremont, Calif.), Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Timothy P. Stammers (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for mapping cellular slices to a Wi-Fi Network. It may be advantageous to port the slice constructs from a cellular network (e.g., 5G) to the Wi-Fi system. In one embodiment, templates are established for each slice which define different parameters that are used when the slice is imp...