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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2012
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Shunliang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xuejun Cai, Täby, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The invention refers to providing a service associated to a service request (S) received from a mobile user equipment—UE—(), the communications network comprising a plurality of service nodes (-), a service control node () and an application server (), wherein the service control node (), in response to the service request, sends a request (S) to the application server () to get selection assistance information with respect to the UE, receives a response (S) from the application server () comprising selection assistance information, and selects or initiates selecting a service node () from the plurality of service nodes (-) in dependency of the selection assistance information. The invention further refers to a control node, an application server and to corresponding programs.