US 12,075,326 B2
Network slicing enhancements
Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ahmed M. Soliman, Munich (DE); Christian W. Mucke, Cupertino, CA (US); Huarui Liang, Beijing (CN); Oleg M. Moskalenko, Ben Lomond, CA (US); Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Santa Clara, CA (US); Sergey Sitnikov, San Jose, CA (US); and Teck Yang Lee, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/438,538
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/128989
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/099679, PCT Pub. Date May 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353780 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 40/02 (2013.01) [H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An access and mobility management function (AMF) of a core network, comprising:
at least one network interface; and
one or more processors coupled to the at least one network interface;
wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the AMF of the core network to:
receive, from one or more network slice customers (NSCs), traffic descriptors for applications and associated routing information associated with each NSC of the one or more NSCs; and
provide, for one or more user equipment devices (UEs) serviced by a network associated with the AMF of the core network, application related information associated with network slice data routing, wherein the application related information includes a UE Route Selection Policy (URSP) and is based, at least in part, on the traffic descriptors and associated routing information received from the one or more NSCs.