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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2023
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Dario Serafino Tonesi, San Diego, CA (US);
Sunghoon Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Nishant Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Alan Soloway, Frederick, CO (US);
Tom Chin, San Diego, CA (US);
Hong Cheng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for discovery, by a user connected to a first network, of an edge application server (EAS) associated with a second network. In some aspects, techniques described herein provide a shared EAS discovery function (EASDF), which allows users connected to different home networks to discover EASs across a plurality of networks. Some techniques described herein provide communication between EASDFs of different networks. Thus, a user connected to a first network can discover an EAS of a second network, which enables sharing of EASs across networks. Furthermore, techniques described herein provide communication between a UE connected to a first network and an edge data network (EDN) (such as an EAS hosted by the EDN) of a second network, such as by establishing a connection between a user plane function of the first network associated with the UE and a network entity of the second network.