Patent ID: 11902892
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A network device, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors configured to:
maintain a mapping table that maps core network slices with quality of service (QoS) class identifiers (QCIs) based on service profile identifiers (SPIDs);
receive, from a user device, a request for a service with a particular QCI included in the QCIs of the mapping table;
identify a particular SPID of the SPIDs in the mapping table based on the particular QCI of the service;
generate a flow request based on the particular SPID; and
cause the flow request to be provided to a radio access network (RAN) associated with the user device,
wherein the flow request causes the RAN to:
select a RAN slice for provision of the service to the user device,
handle a traffic flow from the user device with the RAN slice, and
release the RAN slice when a session with the user device is terminated.