US 11,870,641 B2
Enabling enterprise segmentation with 5G slices in a service provider network
Oliver James Bull, Bristol (GB); Rex Emmanuel Fernando, Fremont, CA (US); Anand Oswal, Pleasanton, CA (US); Kausik Majumdar, San Ramon, CA (US); Darren Russell Dukes, Ottawa (CA); and Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/164,010.
Application 18/164,010 is a continuation of application No. 17/336,424, filed on Jun. 2, 2021.
Application 17/336,424 is a continuation of application No. 16/571,365, filed on Sep. 16, 2019, granted, now 11,070,422, issued on Jul. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0188413 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 43/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 47/24 (2022.01); H04L 47/22 (2022.01); H04L 47/20 (2022.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 41/0806 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 47/20 (2013.01); H04L 47/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at a routing node connected at an edge of a forwarding plane and operably connected to a service provider network:
maintaining one or more mappings between network traffic policies of the forwarding plane to network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network;
maintaining one or more mappings between identifiers associated with user endpoints and the network traffic policies;
receiving network traffic from the forwarding plane, wherein the network traffic is destined to a first user endpoint and associated with a first network traffic policy;
configuring the network traffic for forwarding over a first network slice provisioned on the data plane of the service provider network to the first user endpoint, wherein the first network slice corresponds to the first network traffic policy in the one or more mappings between network traffic policies of the forwarding plane to network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network; and
forwarding the network traffic to the data plane of the service provider network.