US 11,758,457 B2
Relocation of multi-user edge applications
Svante Alnås, Lund (SE); and Linh Trang, Aakarp (SE)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/961,037
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/050787
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/138104, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1830009-5 (SE), filed on Jan. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0351745 A1, Nov. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 40/20 (2009.01); H04W 36/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/38 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/28 (2013.01) [H04W 36/0009 (2018.08); H04W 36/38 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a source edge computing server of an edge-computing system, the method comprising:
executing a multi-user edge computing application between the source edge computing server and a first user equipment (UE) for a first user and between the source edge computing server and a second UE for a second user based on:
a first user context of the first user comprising a first set of parameters having values specific to the multi-user edge computing application being executed for the first user between the first UE and the source edge computing server;
a second user context of the second user comprising a second set of parameters having values specific to the multi-user edge computing application being executed for the second user between the second UE and the source edge computing server; and
a group context of the first user and the second user comprising croup parameters having values shared between the first and second users available to the source edge computing server for executing the multi-user edge computing application for the first and second users between the first and second UEs and the source edge computing server;
relocating the first user context from the source edge computing server to a target edge computing server; and
providing the group context from the source edge computing server to the target edge computing server.