Patent ID: 11929979
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, storing a plurality of processor-executable instructions to:
maintain first information associating one or more Uniform Resource Locator (“URLs”) with respective Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of one or more edge computing devices;
maintain second information associating one or more User Equipment (“UE”) identifiers with one or more locations;
receive a request, from a particular UE, wherein the request includes an identifier of the particular UE and a particular URL;
identify, based on the identifier of the particular UE and the second information, a location of the particular UE;
compare the particular URL, included in the request, to the one or more URLs included in the first information;
determine, based on the comparing, that the particular URL is associated with a particular set of edge computing devices, of the one or more edge computing devices;
select, based on the location of the particular UE, a particular edge computing device of the particular set of edge computing devices; and
output, to the particular UE and in response to the request, a particular IP address of the selected particular edge computing device.