US 12,425,877 B2
Multi-environment cellular network slice testing system
Sundeep Goswami, Leesburg, VA (US); Robert Kierzyk, Littleton, CO (US); Said Berrahil, Denver, CO (US); Marc Rouanne, Cherry Hills Village, CO (US); and Andrew Trujillo, Highlands Ranch, CO (US)
Assigned to DISH Wireless L.L.C., Littleton, CO (US)
Filed by DISH Wireless L.L.C., Littleton, CO (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/876,935.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/227,084, filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0033886 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04L 41/14 (2022.01); H04L 43/50 (2022.01); H04W 16/22 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/00 (2013.01) [H04L 41/145 (2013.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04W 16/22 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for multi-environment cellular network slice testing, the method comprising:
creating a cloud-based test environment comprising multiple cellular network components executed on a cloud-based computing platform;
receiving one or more slice testing requests from a service provider system;
responsive to the one or more slice testing requests, creating one or more network slices, where the one or more network slices correspond to one or more portions of a cellular network;
performing slice testing with the one or more network slices within the cloud-based test environment; and
obtaining results of the slice testing using the one or more network slices;
where the cloud-based testing environment comprises a plurality of cloud-based environments, and one or more environments of the plurality of cloud-based environments are configured to allow the slice testing with the one or more environments.