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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Applicant:
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a slice management device, a storage request accepting unitacquires correspondence information in which a service, a slice, and tracking areas are associated with each other. A presence-in-area identifying unitidentifies a presence-in-area status of a UE. An assignment unitassigns a slice corresponding to a service used by the UEand tracking areas represented by the correspondence information. In this case, the slice management deviceassigns a slice to a service in accordance with the presence-in-area status of the UE, and accordingly, a slice assigned to the service can be dynamically changed.