ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,358, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Lawful interception on network slices" was invented by Antonio Vitiello (Pompei, Italy), Gino Ciccone (Aprilia, Italy), Dario De Vito (Mercato San Severino, Italy) and Biagio Maione (Naples, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices provide lawful interception (LI) using slice-based mediation and delivery functions (sMDFs) and providing network slices configured for performing LI functionality as required. A network slice of a radio communication system is selected if configured to execute an sMDF. If a party to a service deliv...