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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04L 61/5061 (2022.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04L 61/5061 (2022.05); H04W 8/186 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising means for performing: storing information of a plurality of user equipment addresses, the user equipment addresses allocated to one or more network slices; partitioning the plurality of user equipment addresses in to two or more groups; providing information of each of the two or more groups to one or more network functions in a network or network slice; and updating the stored information of a plurality of user equipment addresses based on information of utilization of addresses.