Patent ID: 11950183
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one memory configured to store profiles for one or more user equipments (UEs), the profiles for the one or more UEs respectively comprises a service type and a UE identity; and
a processor circuit coupled to the at least one memory, the processor circuit configured to:
receive, from a UE of the one or more UEs, radio resource control (RRC) connection message, comprising a profile of the UE comprising a service type associated with the UE and/or a UE identity for the UE;
select, based on the one or more UE profiles stored in the at least one memory and the UE profile received from the UE, a network slice (NS) from a plurality of NSs to provision the UE; and
trigger a network function based on the selected NS.