Patent ID: 11889352
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus comprising:
a communication interface configured to enable communications in a network with a plurality of user plane functions that perform processing of user plane traffic sessions from one or more mobile wireless user devices;
a memory; and
a processor configured to perform operations including:
periodically monitoring resource utilization of the plurality of user plane functions to estimate a resource utilization level of respective user plane functions;
based on the periodically monitoring, storing a corresponding resource utilization level for the respective user plane functions; and
re-assigning a user plane traffic session from a relatively lower utilization user plane function to a relatively higher utilization user plane function based on the user plane traffic session having a resource utilization level indicator less than a first resource utilization threshold, wherein the user plane traffic session is active longer than a time duration threshold.