Providing slice attribute information to user equipment in a mobile network environment

S Gundavelli, V Srivastava, OJ Bull - US Patent 11,910,299, 2024 - Google Patents
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate providing slice attribute information to a user
equipment (UE) for one or more slice types with which the user equipment is allowed to …

Communication apparatus, network management apparatus, and communication method

Y Okada - US Patent App. 17/774,194, 2024 - Google Patents
The communication apparatus (2) comprises a setting unit (32) configured to set slice
information for identifying a type of a network slice in a Flow Label field in a header of a …

Efficient Discovery of Edge Computing Servers

B Qaisrani, TY Lee, RC Malthankar… - US Patent App. 18 …, 2023 - Google Patents
wireless communication standards include GSM, UMTS (associated with, for example,
WCDMA or TD-SCDMA air interfaces), LTE, LTE Advanced (LTE-A), NR, HSPA, 3GPP2 …

Network address translation (NAT) traversal and proxy between user plane function (UPF) and session management function (SMF)

AS Dodd-noble, I Ali, RK Guntupalli… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
A method enables communication between Session Management Function (SMF) and User
Plane Function (UPF) instances which are separately deployed behind Network Address …

Handling of slices subject to network slice specific authentication and authorization procedure

A Catovic, S Zhao, LG Chaponniere - US Patent 12,035,135, 2024 - Google Patents
Method and apparatus for blocking session management procedures for a network slice
during an NSSAA procedure. The apparatus receives a network slice-specific authentication …

Network address translation (NAT) traversal and proxy between user plane function (UPF) and session management function (SMF)

AS Dodd-noble, I Ali, RK Guntupalli… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A method enables communication between Session Management Function (SMF) and User
Plane Function (UPF) instances which are separately deployed behind Network Address …

Method and system for network slice interworking of 5G network

JY Kim - US Patent 11,470,538, 2022 - Google Patents
A network slice interworking method includes receiving a network slice information request
from a user equipment (UE), identifying network slice subscription information of the UE …

Efficient discovery of edge computing servers

B Qaisrani, TY Lee, RC Malthankar, S Touati… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing efficient discovery of edge computing
servers. A wireless device may provide an edge compute request to an edge discovery …

System and apparatus for providing network assistance for traffic handling in downlink streaming

I Bouazizi, T Stockhammer - US Patent 11,184,417, 2021 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for streaming service in a fifth generation (5G)
system (5GS) network. Various embodiments may provide for selecting appropriate network …