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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Mats Stille, Bromma, SE;

Ralf Keller, Würselen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/12 (2018.02); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 24/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first network node () for enabling communication between a first wireless device () of a first core network in a communication network with a second wireless device () of a second core network in the communication network (). The first network node () supports a first set of functionalities out of a total set of functionalities in the first core network of the communication network, which first set of functionalities belongs to a first network slice of the first core network, and is separated from another set of functionalities out of the total set of functionalities in the first core network. The first network node () initiates a request transmission, to a receiving network node (), for communicating with the second wireless device, which request transmission comprises a first network slice identity, first network slice ID, of the first network slice identifying the supported first set of functionalities.


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