IP Library Granted Patent US 12,382,275
Granted Patent B2
US 12,382,275 · App. 17/906,107 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Communication associated with edge computing

Inventors: Laeyoung Kim (Seoul, KR); Hyunsook Kim (Seoul, KR); Myungjune Youn (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W8/12H04W64/003H04W84/02H04L41/0894
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Patent No.
US 12,382,275
App. No.
17/906,107
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing, by a visited public land mobile network-policy control function (V-PCF), communication using edge computing. The method comprises the steps of: establishing UE policy association with a home public land mobile network-policy control function (H-PCF); receiving a first subscription message from the H-PCF; and transmitting a second subscription message to a visited public land mobile network-unified data repository (V-UDR). The first subscription message is a message that requests a notification, according to edge application server (EAS) information being updated or modified, the second subscription message is a message that requests a notification, according to the EAS information being updated or modified, the second subscription message is based on the first subscription message, and the EAS information may be information that is generated by an application function (AF) and transmitted to the V-UDR.

Claims (33)

1. A method for performing communication with Edge computing, performed by a V-PCF (Visited Public Land Mobile Network-Policy Control Function), comprising:

establishing UE Policy Association with an H-PCF (Home Public Land Mobile Network-Policy Control Function);

receiving a first subscription message from the H-PCF; and

transmitting a second subscription message to a V-UDR (Visited Public Land Mobile Network-Unified Data Repository),

wherein the first subscription message is request for notification based EAS (edge application server) information being updated or modified,

wherein the second subscription message is request for notification based the EAS information being updated or modified,

wherein the second subscription message is based on the first subscription message,

wherein the EAS information created by AF (Application Function) is transmitted to the V-UDR.

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the EAS information includes IP address of EAS and FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the EAS.

3. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the EAS information is related to service identified by one among i) combination of DNN (Data Network Name) and S-NSSAI (Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information), ii) AF-Service-Identifier and iii) application identifier.

4. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the EAS information is related to individual UE(s), group(s) of UEs or any UE.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the V-UDR, a notification message indicating that the EAS information was updated or modified;

transmitting the notification message to the H-PCF.

6. A method for performing communication with Edge computing, performed by an H-PCF (Home Public Land Mobile Network-Policy Control Function), comprising:

establishing UE Policy Association with a V-PCF (Visited Public Land Mobile Network-Policy Control Function);

transmitting a first subscription message to the V-PCF,

wherein the first subscription message is request for notification based EAS (edge application server) information being updated or modified,

wherein the first subscription message makes the V-PCF transmit a second subscription message to V-UDR (Visited Public Land Mobile Network-Unified Data Repository),

wherein the second subscription message is request for notification based the EAS information being updated or modified,

wherein the EAS information created by AF (Application Function) is transmitted to the V-UDR;

receiving, from the V-PCF, a notification message indicating that the EAS information was updated or modified;

determining URSP (UE Route Selection Policy) rules, based on the notification message;

transmitting the URSP rules to a UE (user equipment) via the V-PCF.

7. The method of claim 6 ,

wherein the EAS information includes IP address of EAS and FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the EAS.

8. The method of claim 6 ,

wherein the EAS information is related to service identified by one among i) combination of DNN (Data Network Name) and S-NSSAI (Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information), ii) AF-Service-Identifier and iii) application identifier.

9. The method of claim 6 ,

wherein the EAS information is related to individual UE(s), group(s) of UEs or any UE.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2022
From: KIM, LAEYOUNG; KIM, HYUNSOOK; YOUN, MYUNGJUNE
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (3)
KR 10-2020-0033176 · Mar 18, 2020 · national
KR 10-2020-0078571 · Jun 26, 2020 · national
KR 10-2020-0083060 · Jul 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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