US 11,812,351 B2
Application initiated network trigger for switching a user device between mutually exclusive network slices
Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US); Vimal Srivastava, Bangalore (IN); and Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Andover, MA (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,870.
Application 17/865,870 is a continuation of application No. 17/015,258, filed on Sep. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,445,344.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353658 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/50 (2018.02) [H04W 8/18 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
operating a user device with a first data session using a first network slice among a plurality of network slices;
obtaining a trigger notification from a remote application function, the trigger notification identifying a second network slice among the plurality of network slices;
determining that the first network slice and the second network slice are mutually exclusive;
ending the first data session on the first network slice; and
initiating a second data session on the second network slice.