Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic service discovery and offloading framework for edge computing based cellular network systems
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Application No.: US17439481Application Date: 2020-12-17
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Publication No.: US11991260B2Publication Date: 2024-05-21
- Inventor: Biljana Badic , Christian Drewes , Ralph Hasholzner , Krisztian Kiss , Teck Yang Lee , Matthias Sauer , Mikhail Vilgelm , Babar Qaisrani , Vijay Venkataraman , Robert Zaus
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2020/065627 2020.12.17
- International Announcement: WO2021/194583A 2021.09.30
- Date entered country: 2021-09-15
- Main IPC: H04L67/59
- IPC: H04L67/59 ; H04L67/51 ; H04W4/50

Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) or other device performs service discovery of edge computing resources in a cellular network system and dynamic offloading of UE application tasks to discovered edge computing resources. As part of the discovery process, the device (e.g., the UE) may request edge server site capability information. When performing dynamic offloading, the UE may obtain (collect and/or receive) information regarding channel conditions, cellular network parameters or application requirements and dynamically determine whether a task of the application executing on the UE should be offloaded to an edge server or executed locally on the UE. In making decisions between offloaded or local execution, the UE may use a utility function that takes into account factors such as relative differences in application latency, energy consumption and offloading cost.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220360645A1 Dynamic Service Discovery and Offloading Framework for Edge Computing Based Cellular Network Systems Public/Granted day:2022-11-10
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