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Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2024
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Lap Tse, Marietta, GA (US);

Massimiliano Troiani, Frisco, TX (US);

David Taft, Keller, TX (US);

Parry Cornell Booker, Sunnyvale, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.05);
Abstract

A device may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for an application, and may receive, from the UE, parameters of the application and key performance indicator (KPI) targets for the application. The device may receive, based on the request, KPIs from a core network, a mobile edge computing (MEC) device, and an application server, and may compare the KPIs and the KPI targets for the application. The device may determine, based on comparing the KPIs and the KPI targets, whether to utilize the MEC device or the application server for providing the application to the UE. The device may selectively identify a first user plane function (UPF) associated with the MEC device based on determining to utilize the MEC device, or may identify a second UPF associated with the application server based on determining to utilize the application server.


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