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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Thomas Walldeen, Linköping, SE;

Stefan Eng, Linköping, SE;

Torbjörn Örtengren, Linköping, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/20 (2018.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/20 (2018.02); H04W 84/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a method performed by a network function capable of supporting at least a user plane, UP, functional part of a base station (B), comprises establishing a transport network layer, TNL, association with a control plane, CP, functional part of the base station; receiving a request message () from the CP functional part of the base station (), wherein the request message comprises an identifier of the base station; creating a UP functional part of the base station using the identifier of the base station; and transmitting a response message () to the CP functional part of the base station, wherein the response message comprises an identifier of the created UP functional part of the base station; the invention further relates to a method performed by a CP functional part of a base station; and to corresponding network node adapted to perform above-described methods.


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