公开(公告)号：US11601866B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-07

申请号：US17216321

申请日：2021-03-29

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W48/04 ,  H04W4/50 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W48/16

Abstract: A first network device may receive, from a second network device, a first policy control create request and may provide, to the second network device, a common policy control request trigger. The first network device may receive a second policy control create request associated with a user equipment (UE) and may cause a UE policy to be provided to the UE. The first network device may receive, from a third network device, a third policy control create request and may provide a network device policy to the third network device. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, a policy control update request based on the common policy control request trigger and may generate an updated UE policy or an updated network device policy based on the policy control update request.

公开(公告)号：US11595286B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US17246369

申请日：2021-04-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  Jin Yang ,  Maria G. Lam ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Arda Aksu ,  Suzann Hua

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04B17/327 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L43/0888 ,  H04L43/10

Abstract: A system described herein may receive traffic throughput metrics and energy consumption metrics associated with one or more elements of a wireless network, and compute granular (e.g., per-network slice, per-network element, per-protocol, per-layer, etc.) measures of energy efficiency associated with the one or more one or more elements. The system may determine network parameter modifications based on the granular measures of energy efficiency, and/or provide such measures of energy efficiency to the one or more network elements, which may grant access to UEs 109 based on the granular measures of energy efficiency. The one or more network elements may make network parameter modifications based on the granular measures of energy efficiency, such as activating “sleep” or “suspend” modes, and/or otherwise performing energy saving techniques.

公开(公告)号：US11576033B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US17184185

申请日：2021-02-24

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  James Mathison ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W4/50 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W4/24

Abstract: A network device may receive a request for determination of a first non-session management policy control decision for a UE, and may provide an account limits request to another network device based on the request. The network device may receive, from the other network device, account limits for the UE, and may determine a first non-session management policy control service for the UE based on the account limits. The network device may cause the UE to be provisioned with a service based on the first non-session management policy control service, and may receive a request for determination of a second non-session management policy control decision for the UE. The network device may determine a second non-session management policy control service for the UE based on the account limits, and may cause the UE to be provisioned with a service based on the second non-session management policy control service.

公开(公告)号：US11546956B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US17111944

申请日：2020-12-04

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W48/20

Abstract: A method for controlling bearers in a core network includes receiving, from a user equipment (UE) device, a request for access to network resources, where the core network is coupled with a primary radio access technology (RAT) and a secondary RAT. The method includes determining an access point name (APN) RAT access restriction in response to the received request, where the APN RAT access restriction associates an APN with a corresponding RAT, where the corresponding RAT comprises at least one of the primary RAT or the secondary RAT. The method also includes assigning a radio bearer based on the determined APN RAT access restriction, wherein the assigned radio bearer exchanges data via the corresponding RAT; and identifying, to a master node, the assigned radio bearer for exchanging data between the UE device and a device specified by the APN via the corresponding RAT.

公开(公告)号：US20220400425A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17343875

申请日：2021-06-10

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Madhan Muralimanohar ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W48/04 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/08

Abstract: A system described herein may dynamically determine whether a User Equipment (“UE”) is authorized to access a given Local Area Data Network (“LADN”) based on dynamically determined factors, such as temporal factors, network load factors, registration or de-registration of the UE for the LADN, etc. Updates to such polices may be further used to determine whether the UE is authorized to access the LADN. Thus, the providing of services associated with a LADN may be more dynamic and based on additional factors than a determination of whether UE subscription information (e.g., as provided by a UE information repository) indicates that a given UE has subscribed to the LADN.

公开(公告)号：US20220353745A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17242424

申请日：2021-04-28

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Suzann Hua ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Jin Yang

IPC: H04W28/24 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W48/18

Abstract: One or more network devices create, in a network, a network slice with multiple network slice instances (NSIs) having multiple slice instance variations, where each of the multiple slice instance variations services a slice variation type and one of multiple slice variation levels. The slice variation type corresponds to a first performance characteristic of one or more performance characteristics met by the network slice while servicing sessions and the multiple slice variation levels sub-divide the slice variation type into multiple different levels of service within the slice variation type. The one or more network devices allocate, instantiate, and provision virtual resources for each of the multiple NSIs; and services User Equipment (UE) sessions via one of the multiple slice instance variations based on UE selection of one of the multiple slice variation levels of the slice variation type.

公开(公告)号：US11457386B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-27

申请号：US17020945

申请日：2020-09-15

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jin Yang ,  Sagiv Draznin ,  Patricia R. Chang ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Arda Aksu ,  Arvind Aggarwal ,  Maria G. Lam ,  Priscilla Lau

IPC: H04W8/08 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/14

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a mobile edge computing handover service is provided. The mobile edge computing handover service provides for the prospective provisioning of a target mobile edge computing network based on mobility information pertaining to an end device. The mobile edge computing handover service includes managing the provisioning of the application or service, content, and context information in relation to a source mobile edge computing network and the target mobile edge computing network.

公开(公告)号：US20220303822A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17205707

申请日：2021-03-18

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04M15/00

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to determine, in a core network associated with a radio access network, that a user equipment (UE) device, associated with an enterprise, has attached to the core network via a base station in the radio access network. The processor may be further configured to obtain a mapping between a plurality of applications associated with the enterprise and a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) classes; identify an application, of the plurality of applications, for a communication session associated with the UE device; select a QoS class, from the plurality of QoS classes based on the identified application and the obtained mapping; and process messages associated with the communication session based on the selected QoS class.

公开(公告)号：US20220295380A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17197676

申请日：2021-03-10

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W48/06 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W28/24 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W60/06

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein employ an allocation and retention priority for user equipment (UE), referred to as a UE ARP. The UE ARP may be defined per network slice, such that a subscriber can have different priority in different slices. According to one implementation, a network device receives, from a UE device, a registration request requesting access to a network slice and obtains a UE ARP. The UE ARP associates the UE device with a priority level on the network slice. When the network device determines that a maximum number of terminals are using the network slice, it applies the priority level in the UE ARP to grant or deny the UE device access to the network slice.

公开(公告)号：US20220264335A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-18

申请号：US17737119

申请日：2022-05-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W24/02 ,  H04W88/18

Abstract: A Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) device receives first parameters associated with a user device from a first radio access network (RAN) device. The MEC device performs functions associated with an application being executed by the user device and the MEC device is co-located with the RAN device. The MEC device receives second parameters associated with the user device from a core network device. The MEC device modifies performance of the functions based on the received first and second parameters and provides third parameters associated with the user device to a second RAN device that is co-located with the MEC device for adjusting performance of a network.