Patent ID: 11889567
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory;
a modem; and
a processor coupled to the memory and the modem, the memory and the processor being configured to:
receive, via a modem, from an operating system (OS), a request for route identifier, the request for route identifier comprising a traffic descriptor corresponding to a first application from which the request for route identifier originated;
transmit a route identifier to the OS, the route identifier generated by the modem based on a routing policy that provides mapping between the traffic descriptor and a network route, wherein the routing policy provides mapping between each of a plurality of traffic descriptors and a corresponding network route, and wherein each corresponding network route comprises a data network name (DNN) and an indication of a network slice;
receive, via the modem, a start network request comprising the route identifier; and
establish, in response to the start network request, a network connection via the network route.