ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,070, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).
"Active assurance of network slices" was invented by Jorma Ikaheimo (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing system, a declarative testing descriptor for active testing of a network slice implemented by first virtualized services in a network; receiving, by the computing system and from an orchestration layer, metadata associated with the network slice; determining, by the computing system and based on the declarative testing description and the metadata, active testing configuration for testing ...