Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Lalit R Kotecha

Violeta Cakulev

Ye Huang

Kalyani Bogineni

Hossein M Ahmadi

Suzann Hua

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Deepa Jagannatha

Maqbool Chauhan

Kristen Sydney Young

Miguel Angel Carames

Ratul Kumar Guha

Imtiyaz Shaikh

Parry Cornell Booker

James Mathison

Vishwanath Ramamurthi

Sagiv Draznin

Robert Avanes

Vinod Kumar Choyi

Gerardo S Libunao

Lily H Zhu

David Taft

Lixia Yan

Niranjan B Avula

Frank Jager

Timothy M Dwight

Raquel Morera Sempere

Vijayakrishna P Guduru

Jin Yang

Priscilla Lau

Jerry Steben

Matthew W Nelson

Balaji L Raghavachari

Ravi Potluri

Jyotsna Kachroo

Ali Imdad Malik

Yousef Abdelmalek

Anthony Clay Reynolds

Andrew E Youtz

Xin Wang

Bjorn Hjelm

Raymond So

Michael R Waters

Helen Osias Eglip

Arda Aksu

Xuming Chen

Hans Raj Nahata

Yuexin Dong

Emerando M Delos Reyes

Yousif Targali

Amir Saghir

Bharadwaj Vemuri

Dayong He

Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah

Brian Olson

Sergei Karpov

Ray P Hwang

Luay Jalil

Alexander Fadeev

Byunghun Choi

Raul Buendia Iglesias

Lap Tse

Raymond Patrick

Glenda T Baloto

Mingxing Li

Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada

Lei Song

Ho Yin Cheuk

Jeremy Nacer

Jude M Munn

Kent William Hughes

Kevin Lim

Minbao Li

Muthukumar Retnasamy

Nicklous D Morris

Taral Patel

Carl T Leonard

Hany Samir Atiya

Garima Garg

Jayesh Kumar Laad

David E Fitzgerald

Kartik P Umamaheswaran

Jay J Lee

Thomas W Haynes

Susan Wu Sanders

Rakesh H Chandwani

Phillip Andrew Ritter

Wing-Cheong V Yeung

Andrew Wahlon Lam

Umesh Kumar Gupta

Javier Alejandro Ferro

Chien-Yuan Huang

Praveen Gupta

Madhan Muralimanohar

Michael A Gallagher

Paula C Scharlach

Hesham Elbatouti

Samita Chakrabarti

William W Wong

A network device may determine a user equipment route selection policy (URSP) for a first network slice, and may provide the URSP to a user equipment (UE) via non-access stratum (NAS) signaling. The network device may determine an updated URSP for a second network slice that is different than the first network slice, and may determine that the NAS signaling is unavailable for the UE. The network device may provide, based on determining that the NAS signaling is unavailable, the updated URSP to a subscriber identity module (SIM) over-the-air (OTA) system to cause the SIM-OTA system to provide the updated URSP to the UE.

Systems and methods for providing over-the-air user equipment route selection policy configuration updates

A network device may select a first user plane function for establishing, with a user equipment, a protocol data unit session with a single flow and may receive an application function trigger associated with a first new flow for a first application of the user equipment. The network device may cause a first traffic filter to be provided to the user equipment to enable the user equipment to route first application traffic, based on the first traffic filter, to a second user plane function and a first multi-access edge computing device associated with the second user plane function.

Systems and methods for supporting multi-access edge computing using application-based quality of service flows

A device may include a processor configured to determine that Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring is to be performed for a communication session; generate a QoS monitoring policy for the communication session; and provide the QoS monitoring policy to a Session Management Function (SMF) associated with the communication session. The processor may be further configured to receive a QoS monitoring report for the communication session from the SMF and perform an action based on the received QoS monitoring report.

Systems and methods for quality of service monitoring activated by policy control function

A method may include receiving, by at least one network device and from a user device, a registration message including a service identifier and at least one of a network slice identifier or a network slice token. The method may also include determining, based on information included in the registration message, whether the user device is authorized to use a network slice associated with the service identifier. The method may further include setting up a data session to be serviced by the network slice, in response to determining that the user device is authorized to use the network slice.

Systems and methods for network-based slice access authorization

A network device may maintain a list of existing slice identifiers, associated with slices of a core network, that are in use in active UE sessions, and may receive a slice identifier associated with a slice of the core network and provided in a request to establish a session between a UE and the slice of the core network. The network device may determine whether the slice identifier matches an existing slice identifier included in the list, and may create a new network address, with an address of the network device and the slice identifier, based on the slice identifier failing to match an existing slice identifier included in the list. The network device may utilize the new network address to establish the session between the UE and the slice of the core network.

Systems and methods for network slice traffic identification using dynamic network addressing

A method may include providing a network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a network and providing, a non-third generation partnership project (3GPP) interworking function (N3IWF) in the network. The method may also include subscribing, by the N3IWF, to the NWDAF, and obtaining, by the NWDAF and from the N3IWF, data associated with processing performed by the N3IWF.

Systems and methods for obtaining data for network analytics from a non-3GPP interworking function

A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to host a network function container that implements a microservice for a network function in a wireless communications network, wherein the network function container is deployed by a container orchestration platform; host a service proxy container associated with the network function container, wherein the service proxy container is deployed by the container orchestration platform; and configure the hosted service proxy container to apply a wireless network policy to the microservice for the network function. The processor may be further configured to intercept messages associated with the microservice for the network function using the configured service proxy container; and apply the wireless network policy to the intercepted messages using the configured service proxy container.

Wireless network policy manager for a service mesh

Embodiments described herein allow reduced latency and computational costs by identifying a slice associated with a packet and determining an action to be performed with respect to the packet without having to perform deep packet inspection on the packet. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method comprising receiving a packet including a slice identifier corresponding to a slice of a network, the slice identifier having a plurality of bits; determining a bit value for each bit in a subset of the plurality of bits; and performing an action with respect to the packet based on the bit value of at least one bit in the subset.

Systems and methods for packet management

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 system described herein may provide a technique for a policy and/or rules element of a core network, such as a Policy Control Function ('PCF'), to identify a first network slice with which a communication session between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a core network, such as a protocol data unit (“PDU”) session, is associated. The policy and/or rules element may identify a second network slice with which the communication session should be associated, such as based on traffic monitoring, network congestion monitoring, or other criteria, and may output an indication, indicating a second network slice, to a session control element, such as an Session Management Function (“SMF”). The session control element may cause the communication session to be moved from the first network slice to the second network slice based on receiving the indication.

Systems and methods for network slice modification by policy control function in a wireless network

A first User Equipment ('UE') may communicate with a second UE via a communication link to determine an operational status of the second UE. The second UE may be connected to a network via one or more communication sessions. The first UE may determine, based on the communication link, that the second UE is non-operational, and may output, based on determining that the second UE is non-operational, a request to communicate with the network via the one or more communication sessions associated with the second UE. The network may modify the one or more communication sessions to be associated with the first UE based on the request, and the first UE may communicate with the network via the one or more modified communication sessions.

Systems and methods for user equipment reliability and availability in a wireless network

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

A method may include subscribing, by a first network repository function (NRF) located in a first segment of a network, to event information associated with a unified data management (UDM) function or a unified data repository (UDR) located in a second segment of the network. The method may also include receiving, by the first NRF and from a second NRF included in the second segment UDM or UDR information associated with the UDM or UDR located in the second segment of the network. The method may further include receiving, at the first NRF, a UDM or UDR discovery request from a network function (NF), wherein the UDM or UDR discovery request is associated with subscriber information stored in a UDM or UDR located in the second segment of the network, and responding, by the first NRF, to the discovery request.

Systems and methods for network function discovery in a segmented network

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network analytics model service is provided. The service may include ingesting customized models and non-customized models by a network analytics device. The ingestion procedure may include receiving the model and model specification data. The service may include provisioning the model and registering the model for discovery by other network devices. The service may include specifying customized identifiers to be used prospective subscribing network devices for the analytics information. The service may also facilitate the use of the analytics information by the subscribing network devices.

Method and system for discovery of network analytics

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an inter-operator mobility service is provided. The service may provide provisioning decisions and configurations that may include core devices that are shared between users of a first entity and users of a second entity, or are dedicated to the users of the second entity to support a network slice and/or access to an application service for end devices associated with the second entity. The service may manage access and use of radio frequencies associated with the first and second entities based on subscription information and location of the end devices associated with first and second entities. The service may further include enabling inter-network handovers associated with end devices associated with end devices associated with the second entity.

Method and system for inter-operator mobility service

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