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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:
Nov. 12, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Yingjiao He, Shanghai, CN;

Anders P. Larsson, Mölndal, SE;

Zhansheng Wei, Shanghai, CN;

Robert Törnkvist, Karlskrona, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/143 (2022.01); H04L 41/0677 (2022.01); H04W 92/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/143 (2013.01); H04L 41/0677 (2013.01); H04W 92/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

Protocol Data Unit (PDU) sessions in a communication network () provide logical interconnections between Data Networks (DNs) () and respective User Equipments (UEs) () that access the DNs () via the communication network (), and the communication network () establishes one or more affiliated sessions in conjunction with each PDU session, such as an affiliated charging or policy control session. Rather than requiring the high signaling overhead associated with mass terminations of these affiliated sessions on a per session basis, the Network Functions (NFs) () contemplated herein provide for batch termination of a potentially large plurality affiliated sessions, based on the exchange of a corresponding batch termination message. Disclosed batch termination techniques include the exchange of information during session establishment, for later determination of which affiliated sessions are subject to batch termination.


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