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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:
Jan. 14, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Lasse Olsson, Träslövsläge, SE;

Qian Chen, Mölndal, SE;

Peter Ramle, Mölnlycke, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01); H04W 40/34 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 40/34 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for Access and Mobility Function (AMF) re-allocation. In one embodiment, a method for AMF re-allocation includes, at an initial AMF, receiving a registration request for a User Equipment (UE) from a Radio Access Network (RAN), deciding to initiate an AMF re-allocation procedure, sending the registration request to the RAN for delivery to a target AMF for the AMF re-allocation procedure, and sending a UE security context of the UE to another Network Function (NF). The method further includes, at the target AMF, receiving a message from the RAN wherein the message includes the registration request from the UE, obtaining the UE security context of the UE from the other NF, and performing protected NAS signaling related to a registration procedure for the UE using the UE security context of the UE.


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