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Patent No.:

US 12556616 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2021

Exposure and discovery of distributed network functions serving a user equipment or ppdu session

Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid, ES;

Ulf Mattsson, Kungsbacka, SE;

Antonio Iniesta Gonzalez, Madrid, ES;

Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Madrid, ES;

Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Madrid, ES;

Assignee:

TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;

Attorney:

COATS & BENNETT, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Diane D Mizrahi

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04L 41/122 (2022.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/51 (2022.05); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/122 (2022.05);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus are provided to enable a consumer network function (consumer NF) to discover instances of a NWDAFco-located with NFs in the 5GCof a communication network. Existing procedures and messages between NFs are leveraged to distribute lists of NWDAFsco-located with a NF, such as a UPF, AMFor SMF. A NF can provide a list of NWDAF instances for a particular UEthat are co-located with either the same NF or a separate producer NF when the communication procedure for the UEis invoked. Over time, the consumer NFs build a database associating the co-located NWDAFs in other NFs with corresponding UEsserved by the consumer NF. When the consumer NF needs analytic data for one or more UEsserved by the consumer NF, the consumer NF can use a UE ID to look up the co-located NWDAFs for the UEand subscribe with the co-located NWDAF instances to receive analytics data for the UE

Find Patent Forward Citations

Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Miguel. (2026). Exposure and discovery of distributed network functions serving a user equipment or ppdu session (U.S. Patent No. 12556616). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12556616

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