| CPC H04L 63/0853 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] | 12 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
receiving, from a network function service consumer, NFc, an access token request for one or more machine learning models related to a communications network, the access token request comprising information to identify the one or more machine learning models, the information to identify the one or more machine learning models further comprising at least an NF vendor identifier for one or more NFs authorized to retrieve the one or more models;
authorizing the NFc with respect to the one or more machine learning models based on the information included in the access token request; and
providing an enhanced access token for retrieving the one or more machine learning models to the NFc based on valid authorization of the NFc with respect to the one or more machine learning models.
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