US 11,910,299 B2
Providing slice attribute information to user equipment in a mobile network environment
Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US); Vimal Srivastava, Bangalore (IN); and Oliver James Bull, Bristol (GB)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,107.
Prior Publication US 2023/0109664 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a network element of a mobile core network, a registration request for connection of a user equipment to the mobile core network;
performing an authentication for connection of the user equipment to the mobile core network; and
upon successful authentication of the user equipment for connection to the mobile core network, providing, by the network element, a registration response to the user equipment, wherein the registration response identifies a plurality of network slice types with which the user equipment is authorized to establish a session and the registration response identifies one of: attribute information for each of the plurality of network slice types or network location information associated with one of an application server or a Domain Name System (DNS) server from which attribute information for one or more of the plurality of network slice types is to be obtained by the user equipment, wherein based on network location information being identified in the registration response, the user equipment is to query one of the application server or the DNS server utilizing the network location information to obtain the attribute information for each of the one or more of the plurality of network slice types following session establishment by the user equipment with a default network slice type.