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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2023
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Yousif Targali, Sammamish, WA (US);
Shankar Venkatraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Vishwanath Ramamurthi, San Ramon, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system described herein may maintain a set of policies associated with accessing a radio access network ('RAN'), may receive a request for a particular network function (“NF”) to access the RAN, and may determine, based on the set of policies and information included in the request, whether to grant the request to access the RAN. The system may establish, when determining that the request should be granted, connectivity between the particular NF and the RAN, where establishing the connectivity includes assigning a particular address to the particular NF, routing traffic, addressed to the particular address, to the particular NF, routing traffic, received from the particular NF, to the RAN. The system may forgo establishing connectivity between the particular NF and the RAN when determining that the request should not be granted. The RAN may include an Open RAN (“O-RAN”).