US 11,910,455 B1
Techniques to provide sponsored data for a user equipment in a mobile network environment
Vimal Srivastava, Bangalore (IN); Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US); and Robert Michael Batz, Raleigh, NC (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/886,953.
Int. Cl. H04W 76/34 (2018.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04W 76/34 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, via a first session of a user equipment, that the user equipment seeks to access content in which financial sponsorship for accessing the content by the user equipment is to be provided by a sponsoring entity, wherein the first session is provided via a first network slice; and
based on the determining, enabling the user equipment to establish a second session to access the content, wherein the second session is provided via a second network slice that is different than the first network slice.