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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
David Castellanos Zamora, Madrid, ES;
Emiliano Merino Vazquez, Madrid, ES;
Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Pozuelo de Alarcon, ES;
Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Madrid, ES;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments include a method for provisioning subscription data, for a plurality of subscribers, to one or more network functions, NFs, in a communication network. Such embodiments include storing group data, related to the plurality of subscribers, in association with at least a first group identifier, GID, but not in association with individual subscription data for the respective subscribers. Such embodiments also include sending, to the one or more NFs, the group data and the first GID. Such embodiments also include sending, to a particular one of the NFs, the first GID and individual subscription data for a particular one of the subscribers. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by network functions that receive subscription data in this manner, as well as various network functions and/or nodes, in a communication network, that are configured to perform various disclosed methods.