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US 12,238,186 · App. 18/774,009 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) driven edge service discovery and selection

Inventors: Kevin Di Lallo (Laval, CA); Michel Roy (Candiac, CA); Michael Starsinic (Newtown, PA); Taimoor Abbas (Sainte-Julie, CA); Zhibi Wang (Woodridge, IL)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04L67/51H04L67/1063H04L67/30
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Patent No.
US 12,238,186
App. No.
18/774,009
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may send a discovery request to a first edge enabler server (EES) instance to obtain edge application server (EAS) information. The WTRU may receive a discovery response from the first EES instance. The discovery response may indicate a list of EAS information and/or registrar EES information for one or more EAS instances in the list of EAS information. The WTRU may select an EAS instance based on one or more of the list of EAS information or the registrar EES information for the one or more EAS instances. A second EES instance of the plurality of EES instances may be the registrar EES of the selected EAS instance.

Claims (27)

1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a processor configured to:

send a discovery request to a first edge enabled server (EES) to obtain edge application server (EAS) information;

receive a discovery response from the first EES, wherein the discovery response comprises a list of discovered EASs, wherein the list comprises EAS information for each of the discovered EASs in the list, and wherein the EAS information for a discovered EAS comprises registrar EES information based on the discovered EAS being registered to a second EES, and wherein the EAS information for the discovered EAS further comprises an EAS profile on a condition that the discovered EAS is instantiated; and

select an EAS from the list of discovered EASs.

2. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to send an EAS information provisioning request, wherein the EAS information provisioning request indicates the selected EAS and one or more application context relocation (ACR) scenarios.

3. The WTRU of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to receive an EAS information provisioning response from the second EES.

4. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the discovery response indicates ACR scenarios supported by one or more EASs in the list of EAS information.

5. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the discovery request comprises an indication that EAS information is requested from a plurality of EESs.

6. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the selected EAS is selected based on the EAS information.

7. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the selected EAS is registered to a third EES that is different than the first EES.

8. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the discovery request is sent on a condition that the EAS information sharing capability of the first EES indicates that the first EES is capable of obtaining EAS information from other EESs within an edge data network (EDN).

9. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to select one or more ACR scenarios based on one or more of the list of EAS information or the registrar EES information for each discovered EAS.

10. The WTRU of claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to obtain a registrar EES profile using the registrar EES information; wherein the registrar EES profile is obtained from a local cache, from the discovery response, or by performing service provisioning procedures with an edge configuration server (ECS), and wherein the one or more selected ACR scenarios are selected according to the EAS information and registrar EES information and profile.

11. A method performed by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

sending a discovery request to a first edge enabled server (EES) to obtain edge application server (EAS) information;

receiving a discovery response from the first EES, wherein the discovery response comprises a list of discovered EASs, wherein the list comprises EAS information for each of the discovered EASs in the list, and wherein the EAS information for a discovered EAS comprises registrar EES information based on the discovered EAS being registered to a second EES, and wherein the EAS information for the discovered EAS further comprises an EAS profile on a condition that the discovered EAS is instantiated; and

selecting an EAS from the list of discovered EASs.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising sending an EAS information provisioning request, wherein the EAS information provisioning request indicates the selected EAS and one or more application context relocation (ACR) scenarios.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising receiving an EAS information provisioning response from the second EES.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the discovery response indicates ACR scenarios supported by one or more EASs in the list of EAS information.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the discovery request comprises an indication that EAS information is requested from a plurality of EESs.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the selected EAS is selected based on the EAS information.

17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the selected EAS is registered to a third EES that is different than the first EES.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the discovery request is sent on a condition that the EAS information sharing capability of the first EES indicates that the first EES is capable of obtaining EAS information from other EESs within an edge data network (EDN).

19. The method of claim 11 , further comprising selecting one or more ACR scenarios based on one or more of the list of EAS information or the registrar EES information for each discovered EAS.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising obtaining a registrar EES profile using the registrar EES information; wherein the registrar EES profile is obtained from a local cache, from the discovery response, or by performing service provisioning procedures with an edge configuration server (ECS), and wherein the one or more selected ACR scenarios are selected according to the EAS information and registrar EES information and profile.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 17, 2025
From: DI LALLO, KEVIN; ROY, MICHEL; STARSINIC, MICHAEL; ABBAS, TAIMOOR; WANG, ZHIBI
To: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 069919/0234 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTUS2024029260 · May 14, 2024
Provisional Application 63466372 · May 15, 2023
Related Publication 20240388643A1 · Nov 21, 2024
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