US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, IMEC VZW, Universiteit Gent on March 17 for "Service provisioning in a communication network" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,832, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands), IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Service provisioning in a communication network" was invented by Jeroen Maurice Margaretha Famaey (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of provisioning a service in a communication network is described, in which the service comprises at least one virtual network function and at least one virtual network path, which at least one virtual network function and at least one virtual network path are to be implemented in the communication network. The method includ...