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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
May. 13, 2022
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Praveen Singaram Muthukumar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Rahul Pal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rushabhkumar Patel, Newcastle, WA (US);
Kameswaran Arunachalam, Redmond, WA (US);
Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Renton, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Solutions for providing a data traffic session for a user equipment (UE) over a wireless network comprises: receiving, by a session management node (e.g., a session management function, SMF), for a packet routing node (e.g., a user plane function, UPF), an indication of supported interne protocol (IP) traffic type (e.g., IPv4 or IPv6), wherein the indication of supported IP traffic type indicates support for a first IP traffic type or support for a second IP traffic type; allocating, by the session management node, to the packet routing node, a set of IP addresses based on at least the indication of supported IP traffic types, wherein allocating the set of IP addresses comprises allocating only supported IP addresses and withholding allocation of unsupported IP addresses; and providing, to the UE, using an IP address of the set of IP addresses, the data traffic session through the packet routing node.