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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Applicant:
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Inventors:
Marouane Balmakhtar, Fairfax, VA (US);
Brian Waters, Angel Fire, NM (US);
Assignee:
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/7453 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/7453 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Programmable networking devices configured to perform various packet processing functions for packet filtration, control and user plane separation (CUPS), user plane function (UPF), pipeline processing, etc. Upon arrival of a user plane packet, a UPF performs a rapid lookup or hash table of the provisioned PDRs associated with a given PFCP session, arrange PDRs in decreasing order of precedence, and process the packet more efficiently than evaluating all PDRs.