公开(公告)号：US20240364679A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18307950

申请日：2023-04-27

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jerry Steben ,  David Taft ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Tony Ferreira ,  Lily Zhu

IPC: H04L9/40 ,  H04L61/4511 ,  H04L61/5046

CPC classification number: H04L63/083 ,  H04L61/4511 ,  H04L61/5046

Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an EASDF secure service. The EASDF secure service may include a network-side service that may validate access and authorization to use a domain name system (DNS) resolver device, such as an edge application server discovery function. The network-side service may validate access and authorization of an end device based on tokens. The EASDF secure service may include an end device-side service that includes a token with a DNS query to the DNS resolver device. The end device-side service may further provide authorization regarding access and use of applications, networks, and application devices that host applications and/or assets by the end device at the end device. The end device-side service may determine access and/or authorization based on tokens and a validation procedure performed at the end device.

公开(公告)号：US11895537B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US17302713

申请日：2021-05-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Jignesh S. Panchal ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W28/10 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W76/10

CPC classification number: H04W28/10 ,  H04W28/0268 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: A network device may select a first user plane function for establishing, with a user equipment, a protocol data unit session with a single flow and may receive an application function trigger associated with a first new flow for a first application of the user equipment. The network device may select a second user plane function for the first new flow and may create a first traffic filter for the first new flow. The network device may cause the first traffic filter to be provided to the user equipment so that first application traffic is routed, based on the first traffic filter, to the second user plane function and a first multi-access edge computing device associated with the second user plane function.

公开(公告)号：US11716777B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-01

申请号：US17347673

申请日：2021-06-15

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jignesh S. Panchal ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W76/15 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W28/0263 ,  H04W28/0268 ,  H04W76/11

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a dual connectivity path selection service is provided. The service may select a network path for dual connectivity. The service may use mapping information that may correlate network parameters and values to dual connectivity configurations. The service may compare parameters included in a configuration request pertaining to end devices with the mapping information for selection of a dual connectivity configuration.

公开(公告)号：US11606329B1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

申请号：US17663038

申请日：2022-05-12

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jerry Steben ,  John P. Demko ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Satish S. Vasamsetti

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L61/2503 ,  H04L67/10

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for providing updated address mapping information associated with a service mesh via which one or more containerized instances communicate. The system may include and/or implement an application programming interface (“API”) via which the service mesh may provide address mapping information, that includes public and private addresses associated with containerized instances that communicate via the service mesh. The updated information may be received on an ongoing basis, and may be provided to another system that has subscribed to receiving updated mapping information associated with one or more containerized instances.

公开(公告)号：US20230060348A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17409989

申请日：2021-08-24

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ye Huang ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Joseph Lee ,  Miguel A. Carames

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A network device receives location information for a user equipment device (UE), an application identifier (ID), and a latency requirement associated with a data session involving the UE. The network device retrieves from a database, based on the UE's location information, the application ID, and the latency requirement, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) selection weight values associated with multiple MEC platforms. The network device selects a MEC platform, from among the multiple MEC platforms, based on the retrieved MEC selection weight values, and causes the data session to be established between the selected MEC platform and the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11576231B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US16907638

申请日：2020-06-22

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Maqbool Chauhan ,  Kirk Campbell ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  Chad Allenbrand ,  Jerry Steben ,  David Taft ,  Edward G. Leyton ,  Anthony Mathias George ,  Anthony Sirignano ,  Eric Handley

IPC: H04W88/16 ,  H04L61/256 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04W76/12

Abstract: A packet destined for a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) network is received at a wireless station from a user device. A serving gateway (SGW) receives the packet from the wireless station via an S1U GTP tunnel and assigns an uplink S1U General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) to the packet. The SGW performs a network address translation (NAT) function on the packet based on the uplink S1U GTP TEID assigned to the packet to form a translated packet. The SGW transmits the translated packet to the MEC network.

公开(公告)号：US20220394036A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17819721

申请日：2022-08-15

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04L9/40 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: A device, method, and system for forwarding, to a pod, a utility container associated with each of at least one network service for enabling a pre-registration of a network function (NF) with an NF registration function (NRF); sending, from the utility container, an authorization code to an NF authorization platform, wherein the authorization code is associated with the at least one network service; suspending a registration procedure for the NF with the NRF until the authorization code is forwarded from the NF authorization platform to the NRF; and resuming, responsive to a service registration request, the registration procedure based on a validation of the authorization code identified in the service registration request.

公开(公告)号：US20220295242A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17199996

申请日：2021-03-12

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft, III ,  Muralidhar Devarakonda ,  Mark T. Watts ,  Kalyani Bogineni ,  Jerry Steben ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Julian Jimenez ,  Kristen Sydney Young

IPC: H04W4/18 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W88/14 ,  H04W40/22

Abstract: A network device may receive Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and network information from network components and from a set of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes; generate descriptions of, or updates to the descriptions of, routing paths based on the NSSAI and the network information; and send the descriptions or the updates to the IAB nodes. The routing paths may include one or more backhaul links between the IAB nodes, and the descriptions and the updates associate each of the routing paths with one or more Single-NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs).

公开(公告)号：US11212660B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16676039

申请日：2019-11-06

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Imtiyaz Shaikh ,  Jerry Steben

IPC: H04W8/08 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04W8/04 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04B7/0413

Abstract: A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a request for a connection to a Packet Data Network gateway (PGW) from a User Equipment (UE) device; obtain subscription type information for the UE device; and determine that the UE device is associated with a Fifth Generation (5G) subscription based on the obtained subscription type information. The processor may be further configured to obtain a list of available PGWs from a 5G Network Repository Function (NRF), in response to determining that the UE device is associated with the 5G subscription; select a PGW from the obtained list of available PGWs based on a selection rule; and send a create session request for the UE device to the selected PGW.

公开(公告)号：US20210392477A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US16899150

申请日：2020-06-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Vinod Kumar Choyi ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Jerry Steben ,  Parry Cornell Booker ,  Hossein M. Ahmadi ,  Minbao Li ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04W4/20 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W12/00 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to host a network function container that implements a microservice for a network function in a wireless communications network, wherein the network function container is deployed by a container orchestration platform; host a service proxy container associated with the network function container, wherein the service proxy container is deployed by the container orchestration platform; and configure the hosted service proxy container to apply a wireless network policy to the microservice for the network function. The processor may be further configured to intercept messages associated with the microservice for the network function using the configured service proxy container; and apply the wireless network policy to the intercepted messages using the configured service proxy container.