公开(公告)号：US12284537B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-22

申请号：US17835007

申请日：2022-06-08

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Ye Huang ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04W76/20

Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an event reporting service. The event reporting service may enable network devices, such as an application function, to subscribe to usage reporting in which notifications for a usage event may be reported periodically or non-singularly. The event reporting service may include data instances in messages exchanged between core network devices that configures the usage and event notification.

公开(公告)号：US12256303B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-18

申请号：US17720489

申请日：2022-04-14

Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.

Inventor： Hossein M. Ahmadi ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W4/50 ,  H04W24/04

Abstract: According to disclosed embodiments, as discussed below, a cell broadcasting framework is provided including receiving a request from a Network Function (NF) consumer by a service communication proxy (SCP) on a network, the request including a set of parameters, identifying a plurality of target NF producers corresponding to the set of parameters, transmitting the request to the plurality of target NF producers, receiving a plurality of successful request responses corresponding to some or all of the plurality of target NF producers, transmitting one of the plurality of successful request response to the NF consumer, and discarding all other successful request responses.

公开(公告)号：US12160490B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US16891585

申请日：2020-06-03

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L69/00

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an discovery service is provided. The discovery service may provide a network device to request for binding information from a binding service function. The request may include information that indicates a type of policy control function. For example, the information may indicate a session management policy control function, an access management policy control function, or another dedicated type of policy control function.

公开(公告)号：US12081405B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US18305513

申请日：2023-04-24

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Lixia Yan ,  Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L41/0894 ,  H04L67/14

CPC classification number: H04L41/0894 ,  H04L12/1407 ,  H04L67/14

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a first request to establish, modify, or remove a plurality of communication sessions between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a network. The system may output, to a policy element of the network (e.g., a Policy Control Function (“PCF”) or a Policy Charging and Rules Function (“PCRF”)), a second request for policies associated with the UE and the plurality of communication sessions, where the second request includes a plurality of communication session identifiers that are each associated with a particular one of the plurality of communication sessions. The system may receive and enforce the requested policy information when establishing, modifying, or removing the requested plurality of communication sessions based on the received particular policy information. The system may communicate with the policy element via an enhanced interface, such as an enhanced N7 interface or an enhanced Npcf interface.

公开(公告)号：US12021931B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US17933496

申请日：2022-09-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Robert Avanes ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Hossein M. Ahmadi ,  Jerry Steben ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Ali Imdad Malik

IPC: H04L67/14 ,  H04L67/51

CPC classification number: H04L67/14 ,  H04L67/51

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide binding support function (BSF) service registration and discovery for environments using oversubscribed network addresses. A network device in a core network receives a registration request from a binding support device. The registration request includes a binding group identifier associated with the binding support device. The network device stores, based on the registration request, a profile for the binding support device that includes the binding group identifier and receives, from a policy control device, a discovery request for a that includes a unique identifier of user equipment (UE) device. The network device provides, to the policy control device, a response to the discovery request that identifies the binding support device.

公开(公告)号：US20230422161A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18461674

申请日：2023-09-06

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jin Yang ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Arda Aksu ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W72/044 ,  B64C39/02 ,  H04W72/51

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W72/046 ,  B64C39/024 ,  H04W72/51 ,  B64U10/13

Abstract: A method may include transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and determining a location of the UAV. The method may also include identifying a network slice to service the UAV, assigning the identified network slice to the UAV and performing antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.

公开(公告)号：US20230362615A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-09

申请号：US17735181

申请日：2022-05-03

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lixia Yan ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W8/00 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W76/14

CPC classification number: H04W8/005 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W76/14

Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an detection and autocorrection of stale session information service. The detection and autocorrection service may include the addition of a header, which may indicate date and time information, with a message that has an origination timestamp header. The header may be added to the message by an intermediary network device relative to origin and destination network devices associated with a network procedure. The header may enable detection by a network device of stale session information. The header may enable the network device to determine whether to ignore the message as a duplicate message or use the message to carry out the network procedure. In this way, duplicate messages that may include the same origination timestamp header may be managed and stale information may be detected.

公开(公告)号：US11792078B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US16523572

申请日：2019-07-26

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Patricia R. Chang ,  Arda Aksu ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Sagiv Draznin ,  Jin Yang

IPC: H04L41/12 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L9/40

CPC classification number: H04L41/12 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L63/08

Abstract: A network device may instantiate a first process in a first Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) cluster within a first MEC network; register the first MEC network at a MEC cloud; receive a call from the first process to obtain information from a second process in a second MEC cluster within a second MEC network that is registered at the MEC cloud; create a first message based on the call; send the first message from the first MEC cluster to the second MEC cluster; receive, at the first MEC cluster, a second message from the second MEC cluster, wherein the second message is provided by the second MEC cluster in response to receiving the first message; and extract a return value from the second message, wherein the return value is generated by the second process in response to receipt of the call in the second MEC cluster.

公开(公告)号：US11758593B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17013948

申请日：2020-09-08

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04W76/00 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W48/02 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W80/10

CPC classification number: H04W76/12 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W48/02 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W80/10

Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a user device, a request to establish a packet data unit (PDU) session; determining that the PDU session should be established as an always-on PDU session; determining whether subscription data associated with the user device indicates that the user device is allowed to establish the always-on PDU session; and establishing the PDU session as an always-on PDU session in response to determining that the subscription data indicates that the user device is allowed to establish the always-on PDU session.

公开(公告)号：US11528608B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US16582429

申请日：2019-09-25

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sagiv Draznin ,  Patricia R. Chang ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Jin Yang

IPC: G06F7/04 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W12/72 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: A method for performing service authorization for private networks based on an enhanced PLMN identifier. The method includes receiving an attach request from a user equipment device (UE) via a private network, where the attach request includes an international mobile subscriber identity value (IMSI). The method further includes determining, based on the IMSI, an organization identifier and a token associated with the private network, where the token is included in an enhanced PLMN for granting the UE access to resources in the private network. The method further includes sending the token to the UE and a network proxy within the private network.