US 11,671,803 B2
Functions and method for handling a credit pool of service units
Yong Yang, Kållered (SE); Ioannis Sapountzis, Mölndal (SE); and Jiehong Yang, Mölndal (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/354,350.
Application 17/354,350 is a continuation of application No. 16/623,008, granted, now 11,070,959, previously published as PCT/EP2017/068218, filed on Jul. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0314747 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/24 (2018.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 4/24 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1407 (2013.01); H04M 15/61 (2013.01); H04M 15/66 (2013.01); H04M 2215/32 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a Control Plane (CP) function, implemented in a CP node, for handling a credit pool comprising granted service units to be used by multiple services in a telecommunication network, wherein the multiple services are grouped in at least one first Rating Group (RG), the method comprising:
creating an individual Usage Reporting Rule (URR) for each of the at least one first RG, wherein each individual URR comprises a first credit pool threshold;
providing the individual URRs to a User Plane (UP) function implemented in the CP node;
creating a Usage Reporting Rule for the Credit Pool (URR CRPL), wherein the URR CRPL further comprises the first credit pool threshold; and
providing the URR CRPL to the UP function.