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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

May. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Dish Wireless L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventors:

Stacey Osborn, Arvada, CO (US);

Jinsook Ryu, Oakton, VA (US);

Assignee:

DISH Wireless L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 36/0033 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Providing expandable network slices that may increase in geographic coverage area on-demand include includes enabling a user equipment device (UE) to operate on a network slice instance on a first Next Generation Node B (gNB) associated with a first cell in a 5G NR cellular network. While the UE is operating on the network slice instance, the system detects mobility of the UE that may require handover from the first gNB associated with the first cell on which the UE is operating to a second gNB associated with a second cell, in which the first gNB and second gNB belong to different tracking areas. While the UE is operating on the network slice instance, the system deploys and activates the same network slice instance on the second gNB that is associated with the second cell based on the detection of mobility of the UE.


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