US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 24 for "Network slicing scalability attributes" (Swedish, Italian, German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,955, issued on March 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Network slicing scalability attributes" was invented by Ralf Keller (Wurselen, Germany), David Castellanos Zamora (Madrid, Italy), Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos (Madrid) and Peter Hedman (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is provided to monitor and control the number of terminals (100) or number of PDU sessions for a network slice, or both. A new network function called the Network Slice Control Function (NSCF) (85) is defined that interacts with an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) (40) and/or Session...