US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 20 for "Network slicing based on service type" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,608, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Network slicing based on service type" was invented by Ming Shan Kwok (Seattle), Wafik Abdel Shahid (Kenmore, Wash.) and Tommy Yau (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a network slice for a communication session associated with user equipment (UE) are described herein. A fifth generation telecommunications network can implement a server to determine one or more network slices that enable the UE to receive a variety of services and/or applications as part of the communication session. The server can determine a location...