US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Network slice switching for legacy applications/network devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,274, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Network slice switching for legacy applications/network devices" was invented by Antoine T. Tran (Bellevue, Wash.) and Emile Minh Tran (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for assigning a tag to untagged network traffic in order to allocate the network traffic to an appropriate network slice. In embodiments, the techniques may involve receiving network traffic that is untagged, determining information about the network traffic, identifying, based on the information about the network traffic, a set of attribute val...