Patent ID: 11909845
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A device, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
assign an edge service identifier (ESID) to an application, wherein the application is hosted in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) environment;
assign a host identifier to the application by including the host identifier in a mapping of the application to the ESID;
receive, from a user device, a communication that identifies the ESID or the host identifier;
authenticate the user device via a device identifier associated with the communication,
wherein the one or more processors, to authenticate the user device, are configured to:
map the device identifier to the ESID and the host identifier using the mapping, and
send the ESID or the host identifier to an authentication platform included within the MEC environment; and

configure one or more routes for a communication session involving the user device and the application using the ESID and the host identifier.