Systems and methods for optimal network slice selection
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsMahesh Chapalamadugu, Raghuram Parvataneni, Syed Rehman, Parry Cornell Booker
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Abstract
A device may include a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive, from an external device outside a cellular network, a request to provide network slice information for an application which is to receive a service from a network slice when the application is installed and running on a User Equipment device (UE); select optimum network slices for providing the service to the application; and provide the network slice information to the external device, wherein the network slice information identifies the optimum network slices. The external device may be configured to download the application to the UE.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a processor to:
- receive, from an external device outside a cellular network, a request to provide network slice information for an application which is to receive a service from a network slice when the application is installed and running on a User Equipment device (UE);
- select optimum network slices, within the cellular network, for providing the service to the application;
- and
- provide the network slice information to the external device, wherein the network slice information identifies the optimum network slices, and wherein the external device is configured to:
- download the application to the UE,
- wherein the cellular network includes the device, and
- wherein the external device is different from the UE.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device and from an external device outside a cellular network, a request to provide network slice information for an application which is to receive a service from a network slice when the application is installed and running on a User Equipment device (UE);
- selecting optimum network slices, within the cellular network, for providing the service to the application;
- and
- providing the network slice information to the external device, wherein the network slice information identifies the optimum network slices, and wherein the external device is configured to:
- download the application to the UE,
- wherein the cellular network includes the device, and
- wherein the external device is different from the UE.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor in a device, cause the processor to:
- receive, from an external device outside a cellular network, a request to provide network slice information for an application which is to receive a service from a network slice when the application is installed and running on a User Equipment device (UE);
- select optimum network slices within the cellular network for providing the service to the application;
- and
- provide the network slice information to the external device, wherein the network slice information identifies the optimum network slices, and wherein the external device is configured to:
- download the application to the UE,
- wherein the cellular network includes the device, and
- wherein the external device is different from the UE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.