Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Samirkumar Patel

Lily H Zhu

Andrew E Youtz

Xin Wang

Hui Zhao

Balaji L Raghavachari

Paul R Mcdonough

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Christopher M Schmidt

Warren Hojilla Uy

Deepa Jagannatha

Young Rak Choi

Ye Huang

Stephen J Kolanowski

Jose M Verger

Angel V Gomez

Kiritkumar Joshi

Arda Aksu

Manuel Enrique Caceres

Parry Cornell Booker

Yuexin Dong

Jerry Steben

Bharadwaj Vemuri

Dayong He

Helen Osias Eglip

Siegfried Erhard Eichinger

Shen-De Lin

Snehal Desai

Anthony Mathias George

Emilia C Quijano

Zhengfang Chen

Susan Wu Sanders

Jeremy Nacer

Jun Yuan

Jyotsna Kachroo

Muhammad Salman Nomani

Michael Talbert

Mary Williams

Axel Hallo De Wolf

Brian T Mecum

Ray P Hwang

Monte Giles

Masudur Rahman

Christopher Michael Martin

Farook Kaleem

Byunghun Choi

Alexandre De Melo

Yann Sendra

Feng Luo

Robert J Hartman

Christopher Francis Mooney

A device comprises a memory and one or more processors. The memory stores a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP). The one or more processors are configured to: receive a packet from a user device; determine a traffic descriptor associated with the packet; apply a URSP to the traffic descriptor to identify a network slice, within a network, to which the packet is to be forwarded; and forward the packet to the network slice over a wireless connection from the device to the network.

System and method for URSP-based tunneling through fixed wireless access

Systems and methods described herein enable dynamic in-app subscriptions and controls for network slices. A user device receives a command to launch an application and identifies a preferred network slice for the application. The application determines that a network services subscription for the user device does not include the preferred network slice and obtains consent, from a user of the user device, to add the preferred network slice to the network services subscription. The user device receives, from a provider network, authorization for using the preferred network slice by the application and initiates a network session on the preferred network slice.

Systems and methods for management of network slice access

In the various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for determining the location of User Equipment (UE) in a network and for authorizing access to content based on said location. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method including receiving, by a Content Authorization Function (CAF), a request to provide a UE type of a UE and a physical location associated with the UE, the request including a UE Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the UE; querying, by the CAF, a Network Function (NF), to provide the UE type and associated physical location, the query including the UE IP address; receiving, by the CAF from the NF, the UE type and associated physical location; and transmitting the UE type and associated physical location.

System and method for determining device location and providing access authorization

A user equipment (UE) may store a default user equipment route selection policy (URSP) and may receive, from a fourth-generation (4G) core network, a default protocol configuration option (PCO) value for a default network slice of the 4G core network. The UE may utilize the default network slice based on the default URSP and the default PCO value and may receive a request to update the default URSP with a new URSP associated with a new network slice of the 4G core network. The UE may update the default URSP with the new URSP to generate an updated URSP and may receive, from the 4G core network, a new PCO value for the new network slice of the 4G core network. The UE may utilize the default network slice and the new network slice based on the updated URSP, the default PCO value, and the new PCO value.

Systems and methods for updating a policy of a user equipment in fourth-generation network coverage

A device described herein may maintain information associating sets of traffic attributes with respective sets of Quality of Service ('QoS') parameters, and may receive a request to establish a traffic flow. The request may indicate one or more traffic attributes associated with the requested traffic flow. The device may compare the one or more traffic attributes, included in the request, to the information associating the sets of traffic attributes with the respective sets of QoS parameters, identify a particular set of QoS parameters with which the traffic flow is associated, establish a communication session with a network based on the particular set of QoS parameters, communicate traffic, associated with the traffic flow, with the network via the established communication session. The device may include an application programming interface (“API”) via which an application associated with the traffic flow may specify the traffic attributes in the request.

Systems and methods for quality of service treatment of network traffic based on traffic attributes

A gateway wirelessly connected to a mobile network receives traffic for a user equipment device (UE) connected to the gateway. A router of the gateway identifies a network slice, from a set of network slices potentially supported by the mobile network, for the traffic, and applies network address translation (NAT) policy rules to select a NAT type from multiple different NAT types to perform for the traffic based on the identified network slice. The router of the gateway performs the selected NAT type for the traffic and forwards the traffic to a gateway modem for transmitting towards the traffic's destination.

FWA gateway network address translation based on network slicing traffic classification

A device may create a list of identifiers for base stations that support a fixed wireless service for a user device. The device may receive a first identifier of a first base station associated with a first attach request of the user device. The device may enable the fixed wireless service for the first base station for the user device when the first identifier is included in the list of identifiers. The device may disable the fixed wireless service for the first base station for the user device when the first identifier is not included in the list of identifiers.

Systems and methods for controlling provision of fixed wireless services utilizing a list of authorized identifiers

A network device may delegate a first prefix length to a primary WAN interface and delegate a second prefix length to a backup WAN interface. The network device may assign a first primary prefix and a first backup prefix to a first VLAN interface and may assign a second primary prefix and a second backup prefix to a second VLAN interface. The network device may provide egress traffic from host devices, connected to the first VLAN interface and to the second VLAN interface, to the primary WAN interface and without prefix translation, when the primary WAN interface is available. The network device may provide ingress traffic to the host devices, via the primary WAN interface and without prefix translation, when the primary WAN interface is available.

Systems and methods for supporting host devices with a single network address when multiple prefixes are delegated

A first wireless access device, associated with a wireless service provider, establishes a wireless local area network connection with a second wireless access device and receives a certificate including a unique identifier associated with the second wireless access device. The first wireless access device determines whether the second wireless access device is authorized to connect to the first wireless access device. For example, if the certificate is signed by a certificate authority associated with the wireless service provider and the unique identifier appears in a whitelist stored at the first wireless access device, the first wireless access device and the second wireless access device perform a mutual authentication procedure based on one or more ephemeral keys. The first wireless access device provides the second wireless access device with access to a wide area network based on successful completion of the mutual authentication procedure.

Mutual authentication between wireless access devices

Techniques for stateless address auto-configuration with support for multiple, different subnets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, by a network device, a router solicitation (RS) message from a network node, generating, by the network device, a router advertisement (RA) message for use in determining the network node's network address, the RA message including a network address prefix and subnetting information, the subnetting information comprising a subnet address, a subnet address length and a subnet option type, and transmitting, by the network device, the RA message to the network node.

Stateless address auto-configuration with multiple subnet support method and apparatus

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which cell selection management service is provided. An Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access-New Radio (E-UTRA-NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) capable end device uses a system information block message to determine whether a wireless station is an EN-DC capable anchor device. Also, the EN-DC capable end device may store a permanent tracking area forbidden list that includes tracking area identifiers pertaining to non-EN-DC capable anchor devices that include femtocell devices.

Cell selection management for end device in femtocell coverage area

An Ethernet protocol data unit (PDU) over 5G service is provided. A network device in a core network stores addresses of advertised subnets, associated with multiple user equipment or customer premises equipment (UE/CPE) devices, in a subnet table that correlates a MAC address of each of the multiple UE/CPE devices to a subnet address. The network device receives an allocation and retention priority (ARP) request over a data link layer. The ARP request indicates an IP address for a target host of a data flow. The network device determines, based on the subnet table and the IP address, a MAC address of one UE/CPE device servicing the host address. The network device sends a directed ARP request to the UE/CPE device using the MAC address, receives in response a target MAC address for the target host, and sends a response to the ARP request with the target MAC address.

Ethernet PDU service for 5G networks

A wireless station of a radio access network receives a reselection priority value of a frequency band used when the wireless station is an E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) anchor. The wireless station broadcasts an intra-frequency system information block (SIB) that includes a first Cell Reselection Priority information element (IE) and a first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes the reselection priority value of the frequency band used by the wireless station. The wireless station also broadcast an inter-frequency SIB that includes a second Cell Reselection Priority IE and a second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes another reselection priority value of another frequency band for another EN-DC anchor. Use of additional anchor-cell priorities enable EN-DC-capable end devices to camp on an anchor cell even when a non-anchor cell has a higher conventional priority than the anchor cell.

Method and system for anchor cell reselection with multi-RAT dual-connectivity

A method for prioritizing scanning to improve system acquisition includes scanning, by a user equipment device (UE), for base stations associated with a first radio access technology (RAT); establishing, by the UE, a first wireless channel between the UE and a first base station based on the first RAT; determining, by the UE, whether information associated with a second RAT was received via the first wireless channel; scanning, by the UE, for base stations associated with the second RAT in response to receiving the information via the first wireless channel, where the scanning is based on the received information; determining, by the UE, whether a second wireless channel based on the second RAT is established between the UE and a second base station; and camping, by the UE, on the second base station associated with the second RAT in response to determining that the second wireless channel was established.

Prioritized scanning for improved system acquisition

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