公开(公告)号：US20220312210A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17749406

申请日：2022-05-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Suzann Hua ,  Ye Huang ,  Chien-Yuan Huang ,  Parry Cornell Booker

IPC: H04W12/082 ,  H04W12/72

Abstract: Systems and method are provided for a temporary network slice usage barring service within a core network. A network device in the core network receives a slice barring information message for an application function (AF). The slice barring information message includes a unique subscriber identifier associated with a user equipment (UE) device to be barred from a network slice and indicates a barring expiration time. The network device stores barring parameters based on the slice barring information message. The barring parameters include a slice identifier associated with the AF, the unique subscriber identifier, and the barring expiration time. The network device sends a barring instruction message to another network device associated with the network slice. The barring instruction message includes the unique subscriber identifier and the barring expiration time. The other network device enforces temporary barring of the UE device from the network slice based on the barring instruction message.

公开(公告)号：US20220255996A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-11

申请号：US17173483

申请日：2021-02-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Gerardo S. Libunao ,  Raghuram Parvataneni ,  Ravi Sharma ,  Kirk Campbell ,  Suzann Hua ,  Alexander Fadeev ,  Miguel A. Carames ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04W4/14 ,  H04L12/58

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220174544A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-02

申请号：US17107172

申请日：2020-11-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Nicklous D. Morris ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  Ye Huang ,  Jerry Steben ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Kalyani Bogineni

IPC: H04W28/10 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L12/721

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to establish a data traffic flow for a user equipment (UE) device and determine per flow descriptor attributes associated with the data traffic flow, wherein the per flow descriptor attributes identify at least a source, a destination, and a protocol associated with the data traffic flow. The processor may be further configured to determine at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute for the data traffic flow and send the per flow descriptor attributes and the at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute to a network exposure device of a core network, wherein the network exposure device is configured to communicate with servers outside the core network.

公开(公告)号：US20220132410A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-28

申请号：US17568775

申请日：2022-01-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Suzann Hua ,  Ye Huang ,  Jude M. Munn ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  Miguel A. Carames

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/11

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage subscription service is provided. The network slice usage subscription service may allow a network device to obtain network slice usage information and event notifications. The event notification may indicate when an end device is using a network slice and when the end device is no longer the network slice. The network device may include an application function (AF) device. The network device may use the event notification to perform an operation relating to the network slice and/or the end device.

公开(公告)号：US20220104004A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17038443

申请日：2020-09-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Jason Logan Anderson ,  Om Prakash ,  Michael R. Waters ,  Shannon A. Donaghey ,  Carlos A. Cazanas ,  Brendan Major ,  Miguel A. Carames ,  Alexander Fadeev

IPC: H04W8/20 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04W48/16

Abstract: A device, located in a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN), may include a processor configured to expose services or capabilities to application servers outside the core network, wherein the device is located in a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN). The processor may be further configured to receive a subscriber identifier message from a gateway device that established a connection to a user equipment (UE) device via the RAN, wherein the subscriber identifier message includes information identifying the UE device; receive a request from an application server associated with the connection for the information identifying the UE device; and provide the requested information identifying the UE device to the application server, in response to receiving the request from the application server.

公开(公告)号：US11234161B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-25

申请号：US16835810

申请日：2020-03-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Suzann Hua ,  Ye Huang ,  Jude M. Munn ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  Miguel A. Carames

IPC: H04W16/02 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage service is provided. The network slice usage service may allow a network device to obtain a network slice usage value of a network slice. The network device may be implemented as a network data analytics function (NWDAF). The network slice usage value may be provided by an access and mobility management function (AMF). The network device may calculate a network slice load value based on the network slice usage value. The network device may also provide the network slice load value to other network devices of a core network, such as a network slice selection function (NSSF) and/or a policy control function (PCF).

公开(公告)号：US20210266702A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US16938538

申请日：2020-07-24

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Miguel A. Carames ,  Parry Cornell Booker

IPC: H04W4/029 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: Systems described herein provide techniques for establishing and modifying user plane communications sessions between Long-Term Evolution (“LTE”) User Equipment (“UE”) devices, connected to LTE base stations, and a Fifth Generation (“5G”) core network. An LTE-5G Interworking function (“LTE-5G IWF”) may logically generate a virtual 5G UE and/or 5G base station, map a LTE UE to the virtual 5G UE, and cause the establishment of a Protocol Data Unit (“PDU”) Session, at the 5G core network, with the virtual 5G UE. The LTE-5G IWF may also maintain a 5G context, including the information of the virtual 5G UE and/or 5G base station, based on the actual location of the LTE UE and/or an LTE base station to which the LTE UE is connected. The LTE-5G IWF may further update this context, including location information, when the LTE UE is handed over from one LTE base station to another.

公开(公告)号：US20210160757A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-27

申请号：US17093783

申请日：2020-11-10

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Miguel A. Carames ,  Jignesh Patel ,  Sudhir Patel ,  Michael R. Waters ,  Gregory D. Roberts

IPC: H04W40/02 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W40/30

Abstract: A user device may be provisioned with a list of paths for connecting to a network. A method may include determining that the user device has attached to a visited network and sending the visited network an indication of connectivity capabilities associated with the network. The method may include receiving an indication of one or more paths established from the visited network to the network based on capabilities of the visited network. The one or more paths may be included in the list of paths. The method may include transmitting data to or from the user device via a first path of the one or more paths.

公开(公告)号：US10959161B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16549167

申请日：2019-08-23

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Suzann Hua ,  Ye Huang ,  Imtiyaz Shaikh

IPC: H04W48/08 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W76/50 ,  H04W8/08

Abstract: An application function (AF) device may identify a user equipment (UE) and may send, to a network exposure function (NEF) device, a battery level request message concerning a battery of the UE. The AF device may obtain, from the NEF device, based on sending the battery level request message, a battery level report, and may cause, based on the battery level report, at least one action to be performed.

公开(公告)号：US10924893B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16385687

申请日：2019-04-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Arda Aksu ,  Riyaj Uddin Ahmed ,  Niranjan B. Avula

IPC: H04W4/08 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W4/12

Abstract: A device may obtain, for an account associated with a user equipment (UE) that is connected to a network, subscriber profile data that includes a group identifier for a messaging group for UEs that are eligible to utilize a group messaging service. The device may update a data structure to associate the group identifier and a UE identifier for the UE, wherein the data structure also associates the group identifier and other UE identifiers for other UEs of the messaging group. The device may receive, based on being subscribed to the group messaging service, group message data for a group message. The device may select the UE and the one or more other UEs as target recipients of the group message and may provide, using multicast, the contents of the group message to the UE and the one or more other UEs.