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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2021
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Athanasios Karapantelakis, Solna, SE;
Ioannis Fikouras, Stockholm, SE;
Peter Woerndle, Wangen im Allgäu, DE;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
This disclosure provides new parameters for discovery request messages and discovery response messages communicated between a Network Function (NF) consumer (an NFc) () and a Network Repository Function (NRF) () in a core network. The new parameters support the discovery and selection of one or more NF services to be consumed by the NFc. More particularly, when the NFc initiates a discovery request, it identifies a particular NF service type to consume to the NRF. Included in the discovery request message are the new parameters specifying a particular set of one or more quality metrics the NRF is to report to the NFc in the discovery response message. The quality metrics include the most current measurement values for the specified NF service, but may also include historical measurement values spanning a time duration that is specified by the NFc in the discovery request message.