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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Shekhar, Maharastra, IN;
Vimal Srivastava, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides solutions to registration and discovery of NFs in the vertical 5G networks, at the operator network, as well as handling tasks such as authentication of connecting end terminals at the operator network level. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at network controller of an operator network and from an end terminal, a request for access to a network function (NF) of a vertical network, the request including a type of the NF in the vertical network; authenticating, at the network controller, the end terminal; upon authenticating the end terminal, identifying, at the network controller, the NF requested by the end terminal based at least on the type of the NF included in the request; and facilitating, by the network controller, access to the NF in the vertical network by the end terminal.