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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2023
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah, Keller, TX (US);
Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Jerry Steben, Forth Worth, TX (US);
Suzann Hua, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may receive a communication session request associated with a particular User Equipment ('UE') and a network that includes a plurality of network slices. The communication session request may include a particular identifier, such as a Data Network Name (“DNN”) or other type of identifier. The system may output a request for network slice information, wherein the request includes the particular identifier; and may receive network slice information that indicates multiple network slices that were selected based on the particular identifier. A Unified Data Management function (“UDM”), Unified Data Repository (“UDR”), and/or other element of the network may provide such information. The system may identify network slice priority information that indicates relative priorities of the network slices, may select a particular network slice based on the network slice priority information, and may respond to the communication session request in accordance with the selected first network slice.