US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Oct. 27 for "Network slice-specific authentication and authorization integration with cloud identity providers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,334, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Network slice-specific authentication and authorization integration with cloud identity providers" was invented by Jean-Luc Rene Bouthemy (Sammamish, Wash.) and Konstantin Gueorguiev Matev (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system implements network slice-specific authentication and authorization by integrating cloud identity providers with 5G network slices. After a user equipment completes primary authentication using subscription credentials, the system determines whether additional slice-specific authentication is required for network sl...