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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2021
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Khurram Ahmad Mirza, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sasikala Mannepally, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shujaur Mufti, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Policy node grouping provides efficient network operation by improving the speed and reliability of policy node traffic. Disclosed solutions include: receiving, at a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF), from a user equipment (UE), a data traffic session request; based on at least the data traffic session request and group policy criteria, selecting a policy node group from among a plurality of policy node groups, the plurality of policy node groups each comprising policy node peers grouped by a service type; based on at least the selected policy node group, determining a selected policy node; based on at least the selected policy node and the data traffic session request, establishing a data traffic session for the UE; and based on at least meeting policy node failover criteria and a failover latency timer, performing an inter-group or intra-group failover according to the group policy criteria.