Telia Company Ab

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Anders Baer

David Khan

Maria Jernström

Jan Dahl

Tobias Austrell

Timo Forsman

Jan Anders Tellinger

Magnus Harnesk

The embodiments herein relate to a method and a network device for network slicing, the method comprising: receiving, from a terminal device, a request for at least one of reserving and assigning a network slice for an application; determining whether the application is previously known in terms of application profile or application identity; the determination being performed by matching against a plurality of application profiles and/or application identities residing in an application profile/identity database; if the application is determined to be known, providing a cost for setting up or for assigning a network slice for the application indicated in the request; and if the application is determined to be unknown, assigning a profile to the application and at least one of configuring and assigning a default network slice to the application.

Method and a network device for network slicing

Disclosed is a method for generating information indicative of objects in a geographical area, the method includes: receiving a request; determining a number of positioning services for inquiring the data in accordance with the data in the request; generating a request for information; modifying the received information from the determined number of positioning services by filtering out privacy related information in relation to objects in the geographical area; and generating a response to the requesting entity. Also disclosed is an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product.

Generation of information related to geographical area

A method for arranging a device to operate in a mesh network is provided, the method includes: receiving data relating to the mesh network; evaluating at least one capability of the device to determine data indicative of at least one mesh network capability required by the device to operate in the mesh network; inquiring if the mesh network is capable of providing determined the at least one mesh network capability; and adjusting an application software executed by the device with data indicative of the at least one mesh network capability available from the mesh network for the device to connect the device to the mesh network. A device, a system, and a computer program are also provided.

Connecting device to a mesh network

Disclosed is a method for managing user related data by an access server, the method includes: receiving a request of a user related data; determining data storage storing the user related data; generating an inquiry to the determined data storage for receiving the user related data; in response to a detection that the data storage is granted a right to provide the user related data to the access server receiving the user related data; and generating a response to the system of the service provider, the response including the user related data. Also disclosed is an access server and a computer program product.

Access management to user related data

The embodiments herein relate to method and a UE for determining meta data information associated with a media content, the method comprising: capturing a fragment of the media content; sending a request to a network node for performing an acoustic/audio fingerprinting on said fragment; receiving a result of the identification from the network node; collecting or recording meta data for linking to the identified media content; and storing at least the collected or recorded meta data and the result of the identification locally in the UE or in a database accessible to a network node. The embodiments also relate to a method in a network node and a network node.

Methods and apparatuses for determining meta data related to media content

The embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatuses for adopting network conditions for providing cloud based applications or services to a user. A method performed by a network node of a network operator includes: receiving, from a server of a service provider, a service profile for a service selected by a user of a UE that is connected to the network operator; configuring network conditions, in terms of at least bandwidth or throughput, and latency, based on the received service profile; requesting a selected access point, to adapt its network conditions in accordance with the configured network conditions; and if the selected access point successfully adapts its network conditions, sending a confirmation to the server of the service provider confirming that the requirements of the service in accordance with the service profile, are met.

Methods and apparatuses for providing a service having a service profile

The embodiments herein relate to a method in a user device and a method in a chatbot capable framework for providing continuity in chat communications between the user device and the chatbot capable framework. The method in the user device comprises: establishing a session with the chatbot framework over a first chat platform associated with a first chat application; starting a dialogue with the framework; initiating a transfer of the dialogue to a second chat platform associated with a second chat application and initiating a new session with the framework over the second chat platform and inputting identification information for continuing the dialogue where it stopped at the first chat platform.

Methods for providing continuity in chatbot communications

The embodiments herein relate to methods, an access point and a network node for service quality assessment in a network environment. According to a method, the access point receives, from a user equipment, a request for a service; and determines a service quality identifier based on the requested service. The access point sends, to a network node of a service provider, the service request including the service quality identifier. The network node analyzes the received service quality identifier for determining whether or not the requested service can be supported. If the requested service can be supported, the network node transmits a response to the user equipment informing that the service can be supported over the access point. If the requested service cannot be supported, the network node transmits a response to the user equipment instructing the user or the user equipment to select another access point.

Methods and apparatuses for quality of service assessment in a network

A technique for configuring a user equipment () for establishing an emergency session is provided. The user equipment () is wirelessly connected to a communications network (). As to a method aspect of the technique, configuration information indicative of one or more networks available for the establishing of the emergency session is received via the communications network (). A list of networks available for the establishing of the emergency session is maintained based on the received configuration information.

Configuration technique for an emergency session

The embodiments herein relate to a method in a UE () and a method in an application server () for allowing a user of the UE () to control the type of service messages to receive and also control what type of content is of interest for the user. The method in the UE () comprises: establishing a session with the application server (); transmitting a message to said application server (), wherein the message includes user preferences relating to services or campaigns that the user of the UE () is interested in; and () receiving at least one Application-to-Person, A2P, message including information on said services or campaigns that fulfil the requirements of the user in accordance with the user preferences.

Method and apparatuses for opt-in to and opt-out from receiving A2P messages

The invention relates to a solution for setting a mobile terminal to a predetermined operating mode, wherein it is determined if the mobile terminal resides out of a pre-determined area and in response to a detection that the mobile terminal resides out of the area a profile is activated. The activation of the profile is configured to limit user access to the mobile terminal and to confirm that a data connection is active between the mobile terminal and a communication network. The invention also relates to a mobile terminal performing the method.

Solution for controlling an operating mode of a mobile terminal

The embodiments herein relate to method and a UE for facilitating communication between end users. The method comprises: receiving an incoming communication from a another UE; displaying identification information of the other UE and at least one previously generated note, said note being previously generated by a user of the UE and being associated to the identification information of other UE; and simultaneously displaying validity timing information indication for how long the at least one note should be valid.

Method and a device for facilitating communication between end users

The embodiments herein relate to a mobile user terminal () and a method performed in the mobile user terminal () for predicting the quality of services or applications in a network topology comprising a multi-radio access technology network system. The method comprises monitoring () available network interfaces; recording () quality characteristics of each available network interface; recording () network connection location data for each available network interface; and further recording the date/time of day; collecting () user active service(s) and/or active application(s); and building or forming () a usage pattern based on: each collected user active service and/or active application; the recorded network connection location data and the recorded date/time of day; and the recorded quality characteristics of each monitored available network interface.

Method and a mobile user terminal for service quality prediction

The invention relates to a method for providing information on at least one communication type for a communication service to a user terminal wherein a request of a communication service with a subscriber information is received; a first inquiry to an application server is generated; a second inquiry to a register is generated; at least one communication type meeting criterion is determined; a data record for providing information on the determined at least one communication type is generated and transmitted to the user terminal requesting the communication service. The invention also relates to a network node implementing the method and a computer program product.

Provision of information regarding at least one communication type

The embodiments herein relate to a network device, a network node, a mobile device and respective method. The network device is configured to receive from a network node of each network provider information including a percentage of network utilization and based on that information determine a list including information on network providers to which mobile devices may connect to in the event of an emergency. The network providers being comprised in a given geographical area and connected to the network device.

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