Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Celico Partnership

Lalit R Kotecha

Arda Aksu

Sagiv Draznin

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Patricia Ruey Chang

Violeta Cakulev

David Chiang

Jin Yang

Donna L Polehn

Sergio Aguirre

Priscilla Lau

Raafat Edward Kamel

Deepak Kakadia

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

Kamlesh S Kamdar

John F Macias

Steven Roy Rados

Yee Sin Chan

Maria G Lam

Hossein M Ahmadi

Thomas W Haynes

Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang

Matthew W Nelson

Mingxing Li

Jay J Lee

Lee K Tjio

Robert Avanes

Thomas H Tan

Rakesh H Chandwani

William Howard Stone, Jr

Ali Imdad Malik

Lixia Yan

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Suzann Hua

Derek Hongwei Bao

Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah

Derek Hongwei H Bao

Jyothi Keshavdas

Kent William Hughes

Ye Huang

Imtiyaz Shaikh

Arvind Aggarwal

Kumar Sanjeev

Chris S Neisinger

Aref Iskandar

Deepa Jagannatha

Maqbool Chauhan

Vikram K Rawat

Shankar Venkatraman

Daryl M Low

Sanyogita Shamsunder

Brian Olson

Glenda T Baloto

James Mathison

Benjamin J Parker

Jerry Steben

Bhaskar R Gudlavenkatasiva

Kumar K Vishwanathan

Scott Anthony Townley

Raymond So

Ce Xu

Vijay T Madhav

Jack T Tang

Shweta Sinha

Carl T Leonard

Jodi A Kelm

Parry Cornell Booker

Xuming Chen

Haim Shalom Ner

Arvind Basra

Niranjan B Avula

Amir Saghir

Ravi Potluri

Frank Jager

Bjorn Hjelm

Phillip Andrew Ritter

William Chung King

Sethumadhav Bendi

Jude M Munn

Timothy M Dwight

Thaddeus Jude Dudziak

Gerardo S Libunao

Yousef Abdelmalek

Helen Osias Eglip

Praveen Gupta

Madhan Muralimanohar

Lin Sun

Zohar Fuchs

Xin He

Stanley A Zadrozny

Andrew J Dock

Reza Okhravi

Brett I Rogers

Zuhair B Moin

David M Alward

William M Dornich

Richard M Vandoren

James A Wales

Jae-Wook Song

Timothy Potter

A network device executing a Network Exposure Function (NEF) receives, from a requestor, an on-demand Subscription Concealed Identifier (SUCI) deconcealment request associated with a mobile network subscriber. The NEF sends a second SUCI deconcealment request to a network function (NF) in the mobile network, where the second SUCI deconcealment request includes a SUCI associated with the mobile network subscriber. The NEF receives, from the NF, a SUCI deconcealment response that includes a Subscription Permanent Identifier (SUPI), associated with the mobile network subscriber, decrypted from the SUCI by the NF, and forwards the SUCI deconcealment response to the requestor.

On-demand subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) deconcealment for select applications

A system described herein may receive, from a policy element of a core of a wireless network, a set of triggers associated with a plurality of radio frequency ('RF') bands implemented by a radio access network (“RAN”). The system may identify that a User Equipment (“UE”) is connected to the RAN via a first RF band, and may identify a subsequent connection of the UE to the RAN via a second RF band. The system may identify that a particular trigger, of the set of triggers, is satisfied based on the subsequent connection of the UE to the RAN via the second RF band, and may indicate, to the policy element, that the particular trigger has been satisfied. The policy element may output a second set of UE policies for communications between the UE and the core of the wireless network based on the satisfaction of the particular trigger.

Systems and methods for user equipment policy updates based on radio frequency connection characteristics

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an detection and autocorrection of stale session information service. The detection and autocorrection service may include the addition of a header, which may indicate date and time information, with a message that has an origination timestamp header. The header may be added to the message by an intermediary network device relative to origin and destination network devices associated with a network procedure. The header may enable detection by a network device of stale session information. The header may enable the network device to determine whether to ignore the message as a duplicate message or use the message to carry out the network procedure. In this way, duplicate messages that may include the same origination timestamp header may be managed and stale information may be detected.

Method and system for detection and autocorrection of stale session information

A network device may receive a context creation request based on a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request for establishing a PDU session with a user device, and may generate a policy context request based on receiving the context creation request. The network device may provide the policy context request to a policy control function (PCF), and may receive, from the PCF and based on the policy context request, policy rules for the PDU session. The network device may receive, from the PCF, a terminate PDU session notification indicating that a binding support function (BSF) is unreachable, and may generate, based on the terminate PDU session notification, a PDU session release command that includes a cause code indicating an issue with the BSF and an instruction to not reinitiate the PDU session. The network device may cause the PDU session release command to be provided to the user device.

Systems and methods for preventing user device pinging in asynchronous communication mode

In some implementations, a network device may obtain a message that includes service parameter data associated with an application. The service parameter data may indicate a revalidation time. The network device may generate, based on the service parameter data, a user equipment route selection policy (URSP) rule associated with the application that includes the revalidation time indicated by the service parameter data. The URSP rule may expire at the revalidation time. The network device may transmit the URSP rule for a user equipment (UE) that executes the application. The network device may receive a state indication message associated with the UE that is triggered at the revalidation time.

Systems and methods for user equipment route selection policy revalidation

A base station may allocate wireless communication resources to configure a synthetic wireless communication signal for use as a radar signal. The synthetic wireless communication signal may be configured according to a wireless communication protocol of a wireless communication network that is associated with the base station. The base station may transmit, from an antenna and toward an area associated with the base station, the synthetic wireless communication signal. The base station may detect a reflected signal that is associated with the synthetic wireless communication signal. The base station may process the reflected signal to generate radar data; and perform an action associated with the radar data and the area.

Systems and methods for enabling and utilizing radar capability on a wireless communication

A method may include transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and determining a location of the UAV. The method may also include identifying a network slice to service the UAV, assigning the identified network slice to the UAV and performing antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.

Unmanned aerial vehicle detection, slice assignment and beam management

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an event reporting service. The event reporting service may enable network devices, such as an application function, to subscribe to usage reporting in which notifications for a usage event may be reported periodically or non-singularly. The event reporting service may include data instances in messages exchanged between core network devices that configures the usage and event notification.

Method and system for event reporting to third party devices

According to disclosed embodiments, as discussed below, a cell broadcasting framework is provided including receiving a request from a Network Function (NF) consumer by a service communication proxy (SCP) on a network, the request including a set of parameters, identifying a plurality of target NF producers corresponding to the set of parameters, transmitting the request to the plurality of target NF producers, receiving a plurality of successful request responses corresponding to some or all of the plurality of target NF producers, transmitting one of the plurality of successful request response to the NF consumer, and discarding all other successful request responses.

Systems and methods for emergency broadcast using delegated discovery

A system described herein may dynamically determine whether a User Equipment ('UE') is authorized to access a given Local Area Data Network (“LADN”) based on dynamically determined factors, such as temporal factors, network load factors, registration or de-registration of the UE for the LADN, etc. Updates to such polices may be further used to determine whether the UE is authorized to access the LADN. Thus, the providing of services associated with a LADN may be more dynamic and based on additional factors than a determination of whether UE subscription information (e.g., as provided by a UE information repository) indicates that a given UE has subscribed to the LADN.

Systems and methods for policy and location-based data network selection in a wireless network

In some implementations, a network device (e.g., an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) application server (IMS-AS) may receive, via a first communication interface, from a call session control function (CSCF) device, a request to register for an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) service. The network device may provide via a second communication interface between the network device and a unified data management (UDM) device, and to the UDM device, a request for IMS service information associated with the IMS service. The network device may receive based on providing the request for IMS service information, via the second communication interface, and from the UDM device, IMS service information. The network device may cause, based on the IMS service information, the IMS service to be provided to a user device associated with the request to register for the IMS service.

Systems and methods for facilitating provisioning of internet protocol multimedia subsystem services

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an application-aware scheduling service is provided. The application-aware scheduling service may be configured with bandwidth values and usability values for traffic of applications. The application-aware scheduling service may manage air interface scheduling based on the bandwidth and usability values. The application-aware scheduling service may perform packet inspection to identify an application relating to traffic. The application-aware scheduling service may be configured with a maximum bandwidth for traffic of applications.

Method and system for application-aware scheduling service

A network device may receive a request for determination of a first non-session management policy control decision for a UE, and may provide an account limits request to another network device based on the request. The network device may receive, from the other network device, account limits for the UE, and may determine a first non-session management policy control service for the UE based on the account limits. The network device may cause the UE to be provisioned with a service based on the first non-session management policy control service, and may receive a request for determination of a second non-session management policy control decision for the UE. The network device may determine a second non-session management policy control service for the UE based on the account limits, and may cause the UE to be provisioned with a service based on the second non-session management policy control service.

Systems and methods for utilizing limits to determine policy decisions not related to session management

A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an discovery service is provided. The discovery service may provide a network device to request for binding information from a binding service function. The request may include information that indicates a type of policy control function. For example, the information may indicate a session management policy control function, an access management policy control function, or another dedicated type of policy control function.

Method and system for policy control function discovery service

A network device may receive a PDU session create message associated with establishing a PDU session with a user device and via a RAN, and may receive a first 5QI value and a second 5QI value associated with the PDU session. The network device may attempt to establish the PDU session with the first 5QI value and via the RAN, and may receive an indication that the first 5QI value is not supported for establishing the PDU session. The network device may cause the PDU session to be established with the second 5QI value, and via the RAN, based on the indication that the first 5QI value is not supported for establishing the PDU session.

Systems and methods for enabling an alternate quality of service for non-guaranteed bit rate flows

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Lalit R Kotecha