US 11,876,881 B2
Mechanism to enable third party services and applications discovery in distributed edge computing environment
Wassim Haddad, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Joel Halpern, Leesburg, VA (US)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/757,079
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/060636
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/116732, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007105 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 69/163 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 69/163 (2013.01) [H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 63/166 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of supporting communication between a service executed by an edge server and a mobile application, the method comprising:
receiving a transmission control protocol (TCP) handshake with an Internet Protocol (IP) anycast address from the mobile application, wherein the IP anycast address is associated with an application instance providing the service and the TCP handshake is to query for a presence of the application instance at the edge server;
replying to the TCP handshake with an IP unicast address for the service to be utilized for a transport layer security (TLS) session when the application instance is at the edge server, wherein the IP unicast address is associated with the application instance at the edge server; and
establishing the TLS session between the service and the mobile application using the IP unicast address.