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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Violeta Cakulev, Milburn, NJ (US);
Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Lily Zhu, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Gerardo S. Libunao, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Deepa Jagannatha, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Raquel Morera Sempere, Weehawken, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may provide a technique for a policy and/or rules element of a core network, such as a Policy Control Function ('PCF'), to identify a first network slice with which a communication session between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a core network, such as a protocol data unit (“PDU”) session, is associated. The policy and/or rules element may identify a second network slice with which the communication session should be associated, such as based on traffic monitoring, network congestion monitoring, or other criteria, and may output an indication, indicating a second network slice, to a session control element, such as an Session Management Function (“SMF”). The session control element may cause the communication session to be moved from the first network slice to the second network slice based on receiving the indication.