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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2019
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Washington, DC (US);
Lixia Yan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
James Mathison, Warren, NJ (US);
Barry F. Hoffner, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Marc Chiaverini, Randolph, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may provide for the selection of a charging function ('CHF') associated with a particular user equipment ('UE'). A particular CHF may be selected, from a group of candidate CHFs, based on CHF selection criteria respectively associated with the candidate CHFs and attribute information associated with the UE. The attribute information may describe attributes of the UE, profile information associated with the UE, and/or attributes of traffic and/or bearers associated with the UE.