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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2022
Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Toni Dimitrovski, Boskoop, NL;
José Luis Almodóvar Chico, Delft, NL;
Nicolaas Wijnand Keesmaat, Voorburg, NL;
Antonius Hendrikus Johannes Norp, The Hague, NL;
Pascal Mathieu Agnes Marie Heijnen, Rotterdam, NL;
Jarmo Theodore Wilkens, Málaga, ES;
Koninklijke KPN N.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
One aspect of this disclosure pertains to a gateway device for use in a telecommunications network, wherein the telecommunications network comprises a policy control system configured to provide at least one forwarding policy to the gateway device. The gateway device may be configured to forward traffic of at least one user device connected to the gateway device to the telecommunications network. The gateway device is further configured to receive the forwarding policy from the policy control system over the telecommunications network. The gateway device may receive the forwarding policy using a PDU session establishment procedure, a PDU session modification procedure and/or a registration procedure. The gateway device is configured to enforce the received forwarding policy when forwarding traffic of the at least one user device towards the telecommunications network.