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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRIORITY FOR USER EQUIPMENT

Application US20260081792A1 Kind: A1 Mar 19, 2026

Assignee

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventors

Toby Varughese JOHN, Bibi M. HAKIMZADEH, Lixia YAN, Chien-Yuan HUANG

Abstract

A network device may receive a first private certificate and a second private certificate, and may provision the network device with the first private certificate and the second private certificate. The network device may receive, from a first UE, an IKE SA INIT request with a first payload that includes a priority indicator, and may decrypt the encrypted first IKE SA INIT request with the first private certificate. The network device may receive, from a second UE, an encrypted second IKE SA INIT request with a second payload that does not include the priority indicator, and may decrypt the encrypted second IKE SA INIT request with the second private certificate. The network device may detect congestion, and may prioritize traffic from the first UE over traffic from the second UE based on the congestion and based on the priority indicator.

CPC Classifications

H04L 9/3268 H04W 12/0471

Filing Date

2024-09-16

Application No.

18886003