公开(公告)号：US20250071574A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18452685

申请日：2023-08-21

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Lixia Yan ,  Jerry Steben ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04W24/02

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a selective network slice admission control (NSAC) service on a per user equipment (UE) device level, and include manage select NSAC criteria related to a first limit to a number of user equipment (UE) devices and a second limit to a number of protocol data unit (PDU) sessions supportable on a network slice; receive an indication that a first UE device requests a first PDU session on the network slice; apply at least one of the select NSAC criteria to the first UE device and/or the first PDU session; determine, based on the application, that the first UE device is countable toward the first limit and/or the first PDU session is countable toward the second limit; and generate an NSAC update response message indicating that the first UE device and/or the first PDU session is countable.

公开(公告)号：US12231470B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

申请号：US17675269

申请日：2022-02-18

Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.

Inventor： Amir Saghir ,  Jerry Steben ,  Jayshree A. Bharatia ,  William W. Wong ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Raymond WaiMan So

IPC: H04L9/40 ,  H04L67/141 ,  H04L67/146

Abstract: Disclosure are techniques for allocating aggregation devices in a lawful intercept system. In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining a list of point of interception aggregation (PAG) functions in a network function repository function (NRF) of a cellular network upon instantiation of the PAG functions; receiving a lawful intercept (LI) request; querying the NRF to determine a respective PAG function; and associating a point of interception (POI) function with the respective PAG function.

公开(公告)号：US12219087B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US17406617

申请日：2021-08-19

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah ,  Madhan Muralimanohar ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Jerry Steben ,  Harinder S. Lakhian ,  Muthukumar Retnasamy ,  Hans Raj Nahata

IPC: H04M15/00 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein enable distribution of a Charging Function group identifier (“CHF-Group-ID”) and other CHF selection data to CHF consumers during Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment in a 5G network. A Unified Data Repository (UDR) is provisioned with CHF-Group-ID details for each subscriber of the network. In one aspect, during PDU session establishment, CHF consumers obtain CHF-Group-ID information as part of a subscriber profile that is provided to all CHF consumers. No additional step or hop is needed for the CHF consumers to obtain the CHF-Group-ID. Thus, regionally segmented CHFs can be implemented without replication of data between CHFs in different regional segments and without additional signaling between network functions.

公开(公告)号：US12192827B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US17653327

申请日：2022-03-03

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Vijayakrishna P. Guduru ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Anthony Clay Reynolds ,  Jerry Steben

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04L47/36 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A system described herein may identify a requested communication session between a UE and a network, such as a core of a wireless network. The system may identify Quality of Service (“QoS”) information associated with the UE and/or the requested communication session. The QoS information may include or may be based on a network slice identifier, a QoS value, a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”), one or more models associated with UE attributes, or other suitable information. The system may determine a maximum transmission unit (“MTU”) configuration for the UE based on the identified QoS information and/or models that associate UE attributes to MTU configurations. The system may implement the determined MTU configuration, including providing the MTU configuration to one or more gateways or endpoints of the network and/or to the UE. The UE and the network may accordingly use the MTU configuration when communicating via the requested communication session.

公开(公告)号：US12143813B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17492051

申请日：2021-10-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Vinod Kumar Choyi ,  Jerry Steben

IPC: H04W60/06 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/02

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for User Equipment (UE)-initiated authentication and authorization updates to Network Slice-Specific Authentication and Authorization (NSSAA). A network device in a core network receives a message from a user device outside of the core network, wherein the message includes a request to initiate a NSSAA procedure. The network device initiates the NSSAA procedure in response to the request. The systems and methods also provide for UE-initiated authorization revocation of NSSAA.

公开(公告)号：US20240147548A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18403807

申请日：2024-01-04

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Yousef Abdelmalek ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Jerry Steben ,  Parry Cornell Booker

IPC: H04W76/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W76/20 ,  H04W80/12 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W76/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W76/20 ,  H04W80/12 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an uplink classifier and branching point service is provided. The service may include the management of user plane function devices or uplink classifier devices according to various architectures and connectivity among the user plane function devices or uplink classifier devices. The service may allow end devices situated in different locations to connect to different application service host devices and application service layer networks based on such management.

公开(公告)号：US20230397021A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US17830466

申请日：2022-06-02

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jerry Steben ,  Emerando M. Delos Reyes ,  Matthew W. Nelson ,  Raymond WaiMan So ,  Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah

IPC: H04W24/04 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L67/1095

CPC classification number: H04W24/04 ,  H04L67/1095 ,  H04L41/0806

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein enable premium session retainability for differentiation of services with respect to network function failures. A first network function of a core network obtains a session retention indicator during establishment of a protocol data unit (PDU) session. The first network function calculates a compute footprint for the first network function to support the PDU session and any other premium sessions currently serviced by the first network function. An orchestration device receives the compute footprint and provisions a second network function based on the compute footprint. The first network function and the second network function perform data replication of state information for the PDU session to allow premium sessions to continue with no or minimal interruption in the event of a failover scenario.

公开(公告)号：US11792282B1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US18055487

申请日：2022-11-15

Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.

Inventor： Jerry Steben ,  Samirkumar Patel ,  Ye Huang ,  Helen Osias Eglip ,  Anthony Mathias George ,  Parry Cornell Booker

IPC: H04L67/52

CPC classification number: H04L67/52

Abstract: In the various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for determining the location of User Equipment (UE) in a network and for authorizing access to content based on said location. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method including receiving, by a Content Authorization Function (CAF), a request to provide a UE type of a UE and a physical location associated with the UE, the request including a UE Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the UE; querying, by the CAF, a Network Function (NF), to provide the UE type and associated physical location, the query including the UE IP address; receiving, by the CAF from the NF, the UE type and associated physical location; and transmitting the UE type and associated physical location.

公开(公告)号：US11451672B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US15931923

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jerry Steben ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  David Taft

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/01

Abstract: An edge network gateway, located in an edge network and connected to a core network, receives packets for a local breakout (LBO) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a mobile subscriber. The edge network gateway sends, based on receipt of the packets for the LBO PDU session, a request for charging to a core network node, and forwards the packets for the LBO PDU session to a network or multi-access edge computing (MEC) data center connected to the edge network. The edge network gateway sends, via an online charging interface, charging data counts for the packets of the LBO PDU session to the core network node for reporting to an Online Charging System and charging to the mobile subscriber.

公开(公告)号：US20210152554A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US16689853

申请日：2019-11-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Jerry Steben ,  Parry Cornell Booker

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: A method for performing authorization for network function registration. The method includes instantiating a network function (NF) based on at least one micro-service; providing a software module with each of the at least one micro-service; sending, from each software module, an authorization code to a NF authorization platform, where the authorization code is associated with the micro-service; forwarding the at least one authorization code received at the NF authorization platform to an NF registration function (NRF); sending, from the NF, a service registration request to the NRF, where the service registration request includes each authorization code associated with the at least one micro-service; and registering the NF with the NRF, where the NRF validates each authorization code received from the NF.