H04L 41/40
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using virtualisation
Official title: using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
H04L41/40 (Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks: using virtualisation) appears on 5,905 US grants and 6,621 published applications in this corpus.
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