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Granted Patent B2
US 12,273,836 · App. 17/754,090 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Session management apparatus, user plane apparatus, and access mobile management apparatus

Inventors: Atsushi Minokuchi (Tokyo, JP); Jari Mutikainen (Munich, DE)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W56/004H04W56/001
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Patent No.
US 12,273,836
App. No.
17/754,090
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A session management apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a user plane apparatus, time comparison information between a TSN time of a TSN time domain and a 5G time, and identification information of the TSN time domain; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station apparatus, TSN assistance information determined based on the time comparison information and identification information of a TSN stream for each of one or more TSN streams that belong to the TSN time domain.

Claims (26)

1. A session management apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a request for a report to a user plane apparatus; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the user plane apparatus, a difference of rate of time progress between a clock of an external time domain and a 5G system clock, and identification information of the external time domain,

wherein the transmitter transmits, to a base station apparatus, communication assistance information determined based on the difference of rate of time progress, and

wherein the difference of rate of time progress is a cumulative rate ratio between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock.

2. The session management apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when the user plane apparatus detects a trigger on a drift between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock, the receiver receives the difference of rate of time progress and the identification information of the external time domain.

3. A user plane apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a request for a report from a session management apparatus;

a processor configured to detect a trigger on a drift between a clock of an external time domain and a 5G system clock; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the session management apparatus, a difference of rate of time progress between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock, and identification information of the external time domain,

wherein the difference of rate of time progress is a cumulative rate ratio between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock.

4. A communication system comprising:

a session management apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a request for a report to a user plane apparatus; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the user plane apparatus, a difference of rate of time progress between a clock of an external time domain and a 5G system clock, and identification information of the external time domain,

wherein the transmitter transmits, to a base station apparatus, communication assistance information determined based on the difference of rate of time progress, and

a user plane apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a request for a report from the session management apparatus;

a processor configured to detect a trigger on a drift between a clock of an external time domain and a 5G system clock; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the session management apparatus, a difference of rate of time progress between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock, and identification information of the external time domain,

wherein the difference of rate of time progress is a cumulative rate ratio between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock.

5. A communication method executed by a session management apparatus, comprising:

transmitting a request for a report to a user plane apparatus;

receiving, from the user plane apparatus, a difference of rate of time progress between a clock of an external time domain and a 5G system clock, and identification information of the external time domain; and

transmitting, to a base station apparatus, communication assistance information determined based on the difference of rate of time progress,

wherein the difference of rate of time progress is a cumulative rate ratio between the clock of the external time domain and the 5G system clock.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 24, 2022
From: MINOKUCHI, ATSUSHI; MUTIKAINEN, JARI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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