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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2021
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Ye Huang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Gerardo S. Libunao, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Raghuram Parvataneni, Edison, NJ (US);
Ravi Sharma, Freehold, NJ (US);
Kirk Campbell, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Suzann Hua, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Alexander Fadeev, Summit, NJ (US);
Miguel A. Carames, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a Network Exposure Function (NEF) and a Session Management Function (SMF). The MF may be configured to: receive, from the NEF, a first request to subscribe to a notification service offered by the SMF; send a create session request to a User Plane Function (UPF); receive a first response from the UPF to the create session request, wherein the first response includes binding information that pertains to an association between a User Equipment device (UE) identifier (ID) and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses; and send, as part of the notification service, a message that includes the binding information to the NEF.