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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2022
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Maria Cuevas Ramirez, London, GB;
Stephen Johnson, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of operating a telecommunications network (), said telecommunications network being accessible to a User Equipment (UE) () and comprising a cellular telecommunications network (-) and a fixed-access telecommunications network (-), the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of user plane functions for processing user traffic for the UE, said set comprising at least two user plane functions; providing a combined user plane function () for processing user traffic for the UE according to the set of user plane functions; following establishing a network connection between the UE and the cellular telecommunications network via the fixed-access telecommunications network (), identifying inefficient routing of user traffic associated with the UE (), said inefficient routing comprising routing user traffic to at least the set of user plane functions; in response to identifying inefficient routing, re-routing user traffic associated with the UE to the combined user plane function so as to process the user traffic at the combined user plane function instead of at the set of user plane functions ().