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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2020
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Violeta Cakulev, Milburn, NJ (US);
Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Hossein M. Ahmadi, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A network repository function (NRF) device may receive first locality and priority information concerning a first network function device from the first network function device and may receive second locality and priority information concerning a second network function device from the second network function device. The NRF device may update a data structure based on the first locality and priority information and the second locality and priority information. The NRF device may receive a query concerning a locality from a third network function device and may search the data structure based on the query to identify network function device information associated with the locality. The NRF device may send the network function device information to the third network function device.