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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Swapnil Barai, Maharashtra, IN;
Suyog Subhash Belsare, Maharashtra, IN;
Bhavin Desai, Maharashtra, IN;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to address imbalance across User Plane Function nodes supporting a network slice. The method includes calculating an average utilization load for a resource for a network slice supported by multiple User Plane Function nodes, identifying an imbalance in utilization of the resource for at least one of the User Plane Function nodes, based on the average utilization load, and in response to identifying the imbalance, controlling the at least one of the User Plane Function nodes to select, based on a predetermined criterion supplied to the at least one of the User Plane Function nodes, a session that supports the network slice and to perform a corrective action with respect to the session.