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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Sreejith Menon, Herndon, VA (US);
John Hursey, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology is directed towards facilitating the creation of network sub-slices within a network slice. When a network slice having defined default specification data (e.g., quality of service and prioritization levels) is instantiated, resources of the network slice can be allocated to network sub-slices within the network slice. A network sub-slice has modified specification data relative to the default specification data. Upon connection of a mobile device to the network, if the mobile device is part of a group associated with a network slice and sub-slice, the mobile device traffic is handled based on its network slice default specification data as modified by the modified sub-slice specification data. Network sub-slices thus provide a way for variations within the parameter data of a network slice, without the overhead and need to instantiate a separate network slice for each variation needed by subscribing entities.