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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:
Apr. 21, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 12, 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 76/12 (2017.12); H04W 88/08 (2008.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04W 88/085 (2012.12);
Abstract

The invention refers to a method performed by a control plane, CP, functional part () of a base station, the method comprising establishing a transport network layer, TNL, association with a network function (B) that supports a plurality of user plane, UP, functional parts of first base station; transmitting to the network function a request message () comprising information for selecting a first UP functional part among the plurality of UP functional parts; and receiving, in response to the request message, a response message () transmitted by the network function, wherein the response message comprises an identifier of the first UP functional part. The invention further refers to corresponding methods performed by the UP functional part, the network function, and to a corresponding base station.


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