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

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, by the network device from a device of a core network that is in a congested state, a second threshold network slice priority value that indicates a threshold slice priority that is to be satisfied by the network slice priority values and at least one of the correlated first applications or the portions of the correlated second applications so as to be granted access to the network device and one or more network slice identifiers;
determining, by the network device based on the one or more network slice identifiers, whether to reject a connection request from at least one of the one or more end devices;
determining, by the network device based on the second threshold network slice priority value, whether to release an existing connection with the at least one of the one or more end devices;
rejecting, by the network device in response to determining to reject, the at least one of the one or more end devices; and
releasing, by the network device in response to determining to release, the at least one of the one or more end devices that has the existing connection.