Patent ID: 11956708
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A network device comprising:
a communication interface; and
a processor, wherein the processor is configured to:
determine a congestion level pertaining to one or more resources of the network device of a radio access network;
generate, based on the congestion level, access barring information that includes a first threshold network slice priority value that indicates a threshold slice priority that is to be satisfied by network slice priority values assigned to network slices and correlated first applications and portions of correlated second applications of one or more end devices so as to be granted access to and not barred from the network device, wherein each portion of each correlated second application includes at least one function of multiple functions but not all of the functions associated with each correlated second application; and
transmit, via the communication interface, the access barring information to the one or more of the end devices.