US 12,720,587 B2Granted

Systems and methods for network resource preemption

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorsToby Varughese John, Frank Jager, Bibi M. Hakimzadeh, Weimin Shi

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Abstract

In some implementations, a first network device may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for a network resource. The first network device may determine, based on the request for the network resource, a prioritization associated with the UE, wherein the prioritization relates to a quality of service (QoS) attribute of the UE or a message priority of a message associated with the request for the network resource. The first network device may determine that a resource availability of resources at the first network device is less than an availability threshold. The first network device may transmit a preemption message to at least one of the UE or a second network device, wherein the preemption message indicates an interruption to one or more network resources associated with the UE or one or more other UEs associated with the second network device.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by a first network device and from a user equipment (UE), a request for a network resource;
determining, by the first network device and based on the request for the network resource, a prioritization associated with the UE, wherein the prioritization relates to a quality of service (QoS) attribute of the UE or a message priority of a message associated with the request for the network resource;
determining, by the first network device, that a resource availability of resources at the first network device is less than an availability threshold, wherein determining that the resource availability of resources at the first network device is less than the availability threshold comprises:
determining the availability threshold based on a resource availability parameter;
determining the resource availability;
and
evaluating the resource availability with respect to the availability threshold based on determining the availability threshold and determining the resource availability;
and
transmitting, by the first network device, a preemption message to at least one of the UE or a second network device, wherein the preemption message indicates an interruption to one or more network resources associated with the UE or one or more other UEs associated with the second network device.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to:
receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for a network resource;
determine, based on the request for the network resource, a quality of service (QoS) parameter associated with the request for the network resource;
determine that a resource availability of resources at the network device is less than an availability threshold, wherein the one or more instructions, that cause the network device to determine that the resource availability is less than the availability threshold, cause the network device to:
determine the availability threshold based on a resource availability parameter;
determine the resource availability;
and
evaluate the resource availability with respect to the availability threshold based on determining the availability threshold and determining the resource availability;
identify one or more lower QoS parameter resource allocations based on determining the resource availability;
and
transmit a preemption message to re-allocate one or more resources from the one or more lower QoS parameter resource allocations to the request for the network resource.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.