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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah, Keller, TX (US);
Madhan Muralimanohar, Tampa, FL (US);
Violeta Cakulev, Millburn, NJ (US);
Jerry Steben, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Harinder S. Lakhian, Plano, TX (US);
Muthukumar Retnasamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Hans Raj Nahata, New Providence, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods described herein enable distribution of a Charging Function group identifier ('CHF-Group-ID') and other CHF selection data to CHF consumers during Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment in a 5G network. A Unified Data Repository (UDR) is provisioned with CHF-Group-ID details for each subscriber of the network. In one aspect, during PDU session establishment, CHF consumers obtain CHF-Group-ID information as part of a subscriber profile that is provided to all CHF consumers. No additional step or hop is needed for the CHF consumers to obtain the CHF-Group-ID. Thus, regionally segmented CHFs can be implemented without replication of data between CHFs in different regional segments and without additional signaling between network functions.