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：US20240040494A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US17816522

申请日：2022-08-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Lily Zhu ,  Gerardo S. Libunao ,  Deepa Jagannatha ,  Raquel Morera Sempere

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for a policy and/or rules element of a core network, such as a Policy Control Function (“PCF”), to identify a first network slice with which a communication session between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a core network, such as a protocol data unit (“PDU”) session, is associated. The policy and/or rules element may identify a second network slice with which the communication session should be associated, such as based on traffic monitoring, network congestion monitoring, or other criteria, and may output an indication, indicating a second network slice, to a session control element, such as an Session Management Function (“SMF”). The session control element may cause the communication session to be moved from the first network slice to the second network slice based on receiving the indication.

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：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：US20230051735A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-16

申请号：US17399250

申请日：2021-08-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Raquel Morera Sempere

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/02

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a policy control event exposure service is provided. The service may include a policy control event exposure service that supports quality of service (QoS)-based event subscription and access and mobility (AM)-based event subscription. The service may notify network function consumers when a QoS-based event or an AM-based event occurs.

公开(公告)号：US20220232365A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17713367

申请日：2022-04-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W8/04 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L12/14

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable mediums may provide receiving, at a request to establish an access and mobility (AM) policy control association in relation to an establishment of a data session requested by a user associated with a user equipment (UE) device; generating a query to a network device via a network interface, for AM policy control data and for at least one of UE policy control data or session management (SM) policy control data; receiving the AM policy control data and the at least one of the UE policy control data or the SM policy control data from the network device, creating the AM policy control association based on the received AM policy control data; and storing the at least one of the UE policy control data or the SM policy control data.

公开(公告)号：US20220038940A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US16943548

申请日：2020-07-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L12/859 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an application-aware scheduling service is provided. The application-aware scheduling service may be configured with bandwidth values and usability values for traffic of applications. The application-aware scheduling service may manage air interface scheduling based on the bandwidth and usability values. The application-aware scheduling service may perform packet inspection to identify an application relating to traffic. The application-aware scheduling service may be configured with a maximum bandwidth for traffic of applications.

公开(公告)号：US20210368393A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-25

申请号：US16879390

申请日：2020-05-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B17/391

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for adaptive and dynamic beamforming in a radio access network (“RAN”) of a wireless network, based on information received from User Equipment (“UEs”) connected to the RAN, and/or information that can be attributed to UEs and/or users associated with UEs connected to the RAN. For example, a Beam Load Balancing System (“BLBS”) of some embodiments may use such information to identify beams, of one or more base stations, for which a configuration should be modified in order to provide RF connectivity to one or more UEs in a manner that optimizes Quality of Service (“QoS”) provided to the UEs and/or efficiently utilizes network resources.

公开(公告)号：US11140231B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16785099

申请日：2020-02-07

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F8/71

Abstract: A system includes one or more devices that include a memory to store instructions and one or more processors to execute the instructions. The devices include an updated network function (NF) service producer that includes a recent update, wherein the NF service producer is configured to register at a Network Repository Function (NRF) using a Network Function profile (NF profile), wherein the NF profile indicates a Network Function type (NF type) and Application Programming Interface versions. The devices further include a network function (NF) service consumer configured to: receive a message from a network component; determine to engage a service of a NF service producer of the NF type based on the message; and send a discovery request to the NRF in response to the message, wherein the message includes search criteria that specify a version field extended with an operator dependent version field.