公开(公告)号：US20240334253A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18194796

申请日：2023-04-03

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Alexander Fadeev ,  Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Gulay Kurt Chrzanowski ,  John Sangem ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W28/24

CPC classification number: H04W28/24

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a request for Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameter information associated with a particular User Equipment (“UE”). The system may include an exposure element of a core of a wireless network, such as a Network Exposure Function (“NEF”) or a Service Capability Exposure Function (“SCEF”). The system may indicate, to a user information repository of the wireless network, such as a Unified Data Management function (“UDM”) or a Unified Data Repository (“UDR”), that QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE should be provided. The system may receive, based on the indicating, particular QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE, and may output the received particular QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE in response to the request or may push such information as the QoS parameter information is updated.

公开(公告)号：US20220394540A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17340373

申请日：2021-06-07

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for an inter-segment Network Function (“NF”) discovery procedure in a network that includes multiple discrete network segments. The network segments may each include a respective set of NFs. An NF discovery request may include discovery parameters such as an identifier of a User Equipment (“UE”). Network segments may be checked in a sequential or hierarchical manner to determine whether a respective network segment includes an instance of the requested NF that matches the discovery parameters (e.g., is associated with the UE identified in the NF discovery request).

公开(公告)号：US20220353263A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17242419

申请日：2021-04-28

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Vinod Kumar Choyi ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W12/122

Abstract: A network device receives, from a requester, an access token request associated with subscribing a consumer network function (NF) to a resource provided by a producer NF, where the access token request includes a notification identifier identifying where the consumer NF is to receive content and/or notifications, associated with the resource, from the producer NF. The network device validates the requester and generates an access token and an access token response based on successfully validating the requester. The network device signs the notification identifier as a component of the access token response and sends the access token response, with the signed notification identifier, to the requester for use in requesting a subscription to the resource for the consumer NF from the producer NF.

公开(公告)号：US20220095184A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17031257

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Helen Osias Eglip ,  Suzann Hua ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Ali Imdad Malik

IPC: H04W36/12 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W8/04

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may provide for the return (e.g., reconnection) of a User Equipment (“UE”) to a first radio access network (“RAN”) to which the UE was connected, after the UE has been redirected to a second RAN based on the occurrence of an event. The event may include a voice call placed by or to the UE. The return of the UE to the first RAN may occur based on the occurrence of another event, such as the voice call being terminated.

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：US12160350B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US17520806

申请日：2021-11-08

Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Miguel A. Carames ,  Hossein M. Ahmadi ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Alexander Fadeev ,  Jason Logan Anderson

IPC: H04L41/5009 ,  H04L67/148 ,  H04L67/289 ,  H04L41/5054 ,  H04L45/302

Abstract: A quality of service traffic steering approach for multi-access edge computing (MEC) environments is disclosed. In an embodiment, a network exposure function (NEF) or similar device (e.g., MEC controller or orchestrator) monitors a quality of service (QoS) of a data session between a user equipment (UE) and an application. The NEF then can determine when the QoS of the data session does not meet a requested service level agreement (SLA). When the SLA is not met, the NEF identifies a MEC host that meets the SLA using a database of MEC applications. Based on the identified MEC host, the NEF re-routes the data session to the MEC host.

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：US11902892B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17644125

申请日：2021-12-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Jin Yang ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Javier A. Ferro ,  Suzann Hua ,  Susan Wu Sanders ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Ali Imdad Malik ,  Hossein M. Ahmadi

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/02

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/0268

Abstract: A network device of a core network may maintain a mapping table that maps core network slices with quality of service (QoS) class identifiers (QCIs) based on service profile identifiers (SPIDs), and may receive, from a user device, a request for service with a particular QCI included in the QCIs of the mapping table. The network device may identify a particular SPID of the SPIDs in the mapping table based on the particular QCI of the service, and may generate a flow request based on the particular SPID. The network device may cause the flow request to be provided to a radio access network (RAN) associated with the user device, to cause the RAN to select a RAN slice for provision of the service to the user device.

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.