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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2022
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Magurawalage Chathura Madhusanka Sarathchandra, London, GB;
Mona Ghassemian, Kent, GB;
Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Saint-Lazare, CA;
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus for establishing and maintaining a single PDU session with multiple terminal devices, such as for transferring a terminal function between two WTRUs or distributing the performance of a terminal function amongst a plurality of WTRUs. Additionally, methods and apparatus for SLA mapping for terminal function distribution are provided. SLAs for a single PDU session may be mapped among multiple distributed WTRUs based on the function demands for network slice selection. A set of devices running functions of the same PDU session may be selected and registered to the suitable slices based on their required SLAs. A network assisted function distribution slice selection function may serve over multiple slices in the 5G Core for an ongoing single PDU session among the chosen set of WTRUs.