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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2021
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Hossein M. Ahmadi, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Violeta Cakulev, Milburn, NJ (US);
Ali Imdad Malik, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Ye Huang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may provide a technique for an inter-segment Network Function ('NF') discovery procedure in a network that includes multiple discrete network segments. The network segments may each include a respective set of NFs. An NF discovery request may include discovery parameters such as an identifier of a User Equipment (“UE”). Network segments may be checked in a sequential or hierarchical manner to determine whether a respective network segment includes an instance of the requested NF that matches the discovery parameters (e.g., is associated with the UE identified in the NF discovery request).