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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2021
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventor:

John F. Macias, Antelope, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1263 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 72/1252 (2013.01); H04W 72/1257 (2013.01); H04W 72/1278 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02);
Abstract

A MEC relocation service automatically directs user equipment (UE) away from a 'home' multi-access edge computing (MEC) cluster to a different MEC cluster when the home MEC cluster cannot support service while the UE is outside a regional area. A MEC cluster may receive an application service request for MEC services from a UE device outside a regional service area of the MEC cluster. The MEC cluster may determine if service level requirements for the application service request can be met by the MEC cluster. When the service level requirements cannot be met by the network device, the MEC cluster may submit, to a network device, a query for a different MEC cluster in another regional service area. The MEC cluster may establish a direct connection with the different MEC cluster to transfer customer data for the application service request.


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