US 12,193,078 B2
Network slice support of respective transport protocols
Ravi Shekhar, Maharastra (IN); and Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Andover, MA (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/480,488.
Application 17/480,488 is a continuation of application No. 16/560,204, filed on Sep. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,212,850.
Claims priority of application No. 201921024363 (IN), filed on Jun. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007439 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 16/02 (2009.01); H04W 80/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04W 16/02 (2013.01); H04W 80/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, from a user equipment, a request for a network slice identifier in a network that includes a first network slice including a first plurality of user plane functions configured to support a first transport protocol, and a second network slice including a second plurality of user plane functions configured to support a second transport protocol;
determining that the user equipment is to establish a session with the network utilizing the first transport protocol based, at least in part, on determining, for a location of the user equipment, that the first plurality of user plane functions support the first transport protocol at the location of the user equipment;
providing the network slice identifier to the user equipment to enable the user equipment to communicate over the first network slice using the first transport protocol; and
exposing, to an application function (AF), that the first plurality of user plane functions support the first transport protocol at the location of the user equipment to enable the AF to influence traffic routing in the first network slice.