Patent ID: 11909845
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to:
assign an edge service identifier (ESID) to an application, wherein the application is hosted in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) environment;
assign a host identifier to the application by including the host identifier in a mapping of the application to the ESID;
receive, from a user device, a communication that identifies the ESID or the host identifier;
authenticate the user device via a device identifier associated with the communication,
wherein the one or more instructions, to authenticate the user device, cause the device to:
map the device identifier to the ESID and the host identifier using the mapping, and
send the ESID or the host identifier to an authentication platform included within the MEC environment; and

configure one or more routes for a communication session involving the user device and the application using the ESID and the host identifier.