Patent ID: 11937127
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a device, per flow descriptor attributes associated with a data traffic flow for a user equipment (UE) device, wherein the per flow descriptor attributes identify a source, a destination, a protocol associated with the data traffic flow, and at least one additional attribute for the data traffic flow, wherein the at least one additional attribute includes a 5-tuple hash of a source Internet Protocol (IP) address, a source IP address port, a destination IP address, a destination IP address port, and a protocol associated with the data flow;
sending, by the device, the per flow descriptor attributes to a network exposure device of a core network; and
receiving, by the device and from the network exposure device, an instruction to perform an action on the data traffic flow based on the at least one additional attribute, wherein the action includes at least one of assigning a priority value to the data traffic flow or filtering the data traffic flow.