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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0823 (2022.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0836 (2013.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.05);
Abstract
A method including determining, by a processor, whether a processing load on one or more network slice subnet management functions (NSSMFs) has exceeded a predetermined processing limit; and determining, by the processor, which processing load on the one or more NSSMFs has exceeded the predetermined processing limit; and implementing, by the processor, based on the processing load that exceeded the predetermined processing limit, an additional NSSMF for each NSSMF that exceeded the predetermined processing limit.