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US 12,231,596 · App. 17/627,176 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Charging in device-to-device communications over PC5 for interactive services

Inventors: Linghang Fan (Woking Surrey, GB); Iskren Ianev (Lower Earley, GB); Toshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04M15/66H04M15/41H04M15/8033H04W4/24H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 12,231,596
App. No.
17/627,176
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A new charging solution is proposed for D2D direct communication based on 5GS, which allows the network to charge UE's usage accurately and flexibly.

Claims (10)

1. A method for a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, from a Policy Control Function (PCF) node in a core network via an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node, UE policy information related to Proximity-based service (ProSe) usage reporting; and

updating the UE policy information received.

2. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

a memory configured to store instructions; and

a processor configured to execute the instructions to:

receive, from a Policy Control Function (PCF) node in a core network via an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node, UE policy information related to a PC5 usage report; and

update the UE policy information received.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting PC5 charging report information to the AMF node according to the UE policy information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2022
From: FAN, LINGHANG; IANEV, ISKREN; TAMURA, TOSHIYUKI
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061757/0553 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 19200645 · Sep 30, 2019 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220279075A1 · Sep 1, 2022
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