US 11,876,856 B2
Method for computational-power sharing and related device
Yingying Liu, Jiangsu (CN); Runquan Miao, Jiangsu (CN); Chunhui Zhu, Jiangsu (CN); and Ming Sun, Jiangsu (CN)
Assigned to SPREADTRUM SEMICONDUCTOR (NANJING) CO., LTD., Jiangsu (CN)
Appl. No. 17/918,464
Filed by SPREADTRUM SEMICONDUCTOR (NANJING) CO., LTD., Jiangsu (CN)
PCT Filed Apr. 13, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/086931
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/208915, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010288252.4 (CN), filed on Apr. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0144062 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 65/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/10 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); H04L 65/40 (2013.01); H04L 67/60 (2022.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for computational-power sharing, the method being applied to a computational-power sharing network element, the computational-power sharing network element being connected with a network to perform control plane transmission and data plane transmission, or the computational-power sharing network element being connected with the network to perform control plane transmission, the network comprising a core network, wherein the computational-power sharing network element interacts with a unified data management (UDM) network element of the core network through a first reference point, the computational-power sharing network element interacts with an access and mobility management function (AMF) network element of the core network through a second reference point, and the computational-power sharing network element interacts with a user plane function (UPF) network element of the core network through a third reference point or the computational-power sharing network element interacts with the UDM network element of the core network through the first reference point, and the computational-power sharing network element interacts with the AMF network element of the core network through the second reference point; wherein the method comprises:
acquiring computational-power demand information transmitted by a computing demand side and available computational-power information transmitted by at least one computing cooperation side; and
determining a computing cooperation side from the at least one computing cooperation side according to the computational-power demand information and the available computational-power information, and directly or indirectly indicating the computing cooperation side to complete a computing task of the computing demand side, wherein the computing cooperation side is able to provide computational power for the computing demand side.