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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for assigning one or more Virtual Network Function (VNF) instances, or slices, to devices, and for monitoring each change of state associated with the slices. Embodiments include applying an Advanced Security Control (ASC) protocol to verify devices for each request for access to a slice, to establish a zero trust measurement with respect to a network, such as a 5G network. In embodiments, a blockchain is associated with each slice and stored in a distributed ledger, for example to allow rapid access to network slice and device information if a slice will be re-instantiated.