Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Srinivas Kadaba

Chris Phillips

Andreas Witzel

David Ian Allan

Alexander Bachmutsky

Joel Halpern

Dirk Kampmann

Srikar Rajamani

Mohamed Elgendy

A system and method for facilitating service sharing (e.g., voice services, data services, multimedia services, etc.) in a network environment (). In one example arrangement, upon receiving an input at a host subscriber device (), a request is generated () to a host subscriber's service provider network () for instantiating a virtual subscriber identification module (vSIM) populated with the host subscriber's service profile with respect to a service. A guest user's authentication information is provided () for performing guest registration and remote provisioning () for the vSIM, the remote provisioning including allocation of a temporary phone number and an IP address, which may be used in a mapping relationship for routing calls or sessions engaged by the guest () using a service shared with the host subscriber ().

Subscriber-driven sharing of a communications service

A method implemented by a network device in a cellular communication network with a distributed data plane serving gateway (S-GWu) at an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) node B (eNodeB). The method enables an ingress tunnel router to forward traffic between devices connected to the cellular communication network via location identifier separation protocol (LISP) to enable mobility within the cellular communication network without anchor points.

Using location identifier separation protocol to implement a distributed gateway architecture for 3GPP mobility

A scheme for of categorizing packet flows through a network node, e.g., a proxy or router. In one embodiment, packets of a particular flow arriving at the node are monitored for determining whether there is a specific packet traffic pattern associated with the particular flow. Responsive to the determining, appropriate techniques may be utilized for recognizing the specific packet traffic pattern as belonging to a category of packet flow, e.g., ABR video flow.

System and method for categorizing packet flows in a network

The invention relates to a central control entity () configured to control a data plane flow of a stream of data packages in a radio access network part of a mobile communications network. The central control entity () comprises an information detecting unit (), configured to detect information about data plane applications (-) attached to forwarding elements (--) of the radio access network part and configured to detect information about at least one data plane application (-) that is to be applied to said data plane flow. Furthermore, the central control entity () comprises a control unit (), configured to determine a path of the data plane flow through the forwarding elements (--) of the radio access network part, wherein the control unit () is configured to determine the path taking into account said at least one data plane application (-) to be applied to said data plane flow, the control unit () being further configured to instruct the forwarding element in the path, to which said at least one data place application is attached, to pass the data plane flow through said at least one data plane application (-).

Centralized control of data plane applications

A network-assisted remote access system enables a user to remotely access a home Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) network from a visited UPnP network. A controller device coupled to a network edge device is operated by a network service provider. When the controller device receives a request from a roaming user to access her home UPnP network, the controller device confirms with a home network edge device that the user is authorized to access the home UPnP network. The controller device then instantiates a layer-2 connection specific for the user between the user device and the home edge device. The controller device provides the user device access to the home UPnP network via the layer-2 connection.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Srinivas Kadaba