Granted Patent B2

US 12,604,216 · App. 18/300,114 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Inventors: Kiran Sathyanarayanamurthy (Tumakuru, IN); Anatoly Andrianov (Schaumburg, IL)

Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

H04W24/04H04W4/20H04W28/08H04W72/52

Abstract

Claims (35)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, at a network entity, a message from at least one peer network entity;

determining, at the network entity, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, at least one trace capable resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable resource entities and trace disabled resource entities;

allocating, at the network entity, the received message or the subsequent messages of a session of the received message to the determined at least one trace capable resource entity.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , comprising:

determining, at the network entity, if the received message does not comprise information indicating a trace, at least one trace disabled resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable resource entities and trace disabled resource entities;

allocating, at the network entity, the received message or the subsequent messages of a session of the received message to the determined at least one trace disabled resource entity.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , comprising:

determining, at the network entity, at least one tracing load;

scaling, at the network entity, if the tracing load level exceeds a load threshold, the set of resource entities based on the tracing load.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the trace capable resource entities are dedicated for traces and the trace disabled resource entities are dedicated for session processing.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , comprising:

receiving, at the network entity, from an operations, administration and management, OAM, system one or more identity values and/or uniform resource indicators to one or more identity values; and

determining, at the network entity, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, based on the received one or more identity values and/or uniform resource indicators to one or more identity values.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the information indicating a trace is a trace indication information element, IE, of: a Diameter Base Protocol, a header of a HTTP message, a payload of a HTTP message or an ASN.1 message.

7 . A network entity comprising one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, the network entity is caused to:

receive, at the network entity, a message from at least one peer network entity;

determine, at the network entity, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, at least one trace capable resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable resource entities and trace disabled resource entities;

allocate, at the network entity, the received message or the subsequent messages of a session of the received message to the determined at least one trace capable resource entity.

8 . The network entity according to claim 7 , comprising:

determine, at the network entity, if the received message does not comprise information indicating a trace, at least one trace disabled resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable resource entities and trace disabled resource entities;

allocate, at the network entity, the received message or the subsequent messages of a session of the received message to the determined at least one trace disabled resource entity.

9 . The network entity according to claim 7 , comprising:

determine, at the network entity, at least one tracing load;

scale, at the network entity, if the tracing load level exceeds a load threshold, the set of resource entities based on the tracing load.

10 . The network entity according to claim 7 , comprising:

wherein the trace capable resource entities are dedicated for traces and the trace disabled resource entities are dedicated for session processing.

11 . The network entity according to claim 7 , comprising:

receiving at the network entity, from an operations, administration and management, OAM, system one or more identity values and/or uniform resource indicators to one or more identity values; and

determining, at the network entity, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, based on the received one or more identity values and/or uniform resource indicators to one or more identity values.

12 . The network entity according to claim 7 , wherein the information indicating a trace is a trace indication information element, IE, of: a Diameter Base Protocol, a header of a HTTP message, a payload of a HTTP message or an ASN.1 message.

13 . A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program instructions for causing a network entity to perform at least the following:

receive, at the network entity, a message from at least one peer network entity;

determine, at the network entity, if the received message comprises information indicating a trace, at least one trace capable resource entity for processing the received message or subsequent messages of a session of the received message from a set of resource entities comprising trace capable resource entities and trace disabled resource entities;

allocate, at the network entity, the received message or the subsequent messages of a session of the received message to the determined at least one trace capable resource entity.

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