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

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
assigning, by a device, an edge service identifier (ESID) to an application, wherein the application is hosted in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) environment;
assigning, by the device, a host identifier to the application by including the host identifier in a mapping of the application to the ESID;
receiving, by the device and from a user device, a communication that identifies the ESID or the host identifier;
authenticating, by the device, the user device via a device identifier associated with the communication,
wherein authenticating the user device comprises:
mapping the device identifier to the ESID and the host identifier using the mapping, and
sending the ESID or the host identifier to an authentication platform included within the MEC environment; and

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