Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of discovering services provided by a network repository function
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Application No.: US17355592Application Date: 2021-06-23
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Publication No.: US11743699B2Publication Date: 2023-08-29
- Inventor: Maria Cruz Bartolomé Rodrigo , Maria Esther Bas Sanchez
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: COATS & BENNETT, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W4/50
- IPC: H04W4/50 ; H04W8/02 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W60/00

Abstract:
A method of discovering services provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said network function is registered, in a Network Repository Function, NRF, comprised by said telecommunication network, using a service name, a service address and a selection rule, wherein said selection rule defines a further service address and a precondition for applying said selection rule, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said NRF, a discovery request, from a Network Function, NF, consumer, wherein said discovery request comprises said service name, determining, by said NRF, that said selection rule applies by determining that said precondition is met based on said received discovery request and transmitting, by said NRF, to said NF consumer, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises said further service address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210345078A1 Method of Discovering Services Provided by a Network Repository Function Public/Granted day:2021-11-04
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