US 12,232,004 B2
Provisioning and exposing user equipment (UE) communication pattern associated with an application to request traffic of the application to be analyzed in the core network (CN)
Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES); Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Madrid (ES); and Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/765,942
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Sep. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/076992
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 1, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/063844, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19382862 (EP), filed on Oct. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0345865 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/60 (2018.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/60 (2018.02) [H04W 28/0215 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, in an application function, AF, for exchanging UE communication pattern information with a core network, CN, the method comprising:
provisioning, to a network exposure function, NEF, in the CN, communication information related to one or more user equipment, UEs, the communication information including:
an identifier of an application associated with the AF, and
an indication of one or more first parameters describing a first UE communication pattern associated with the application, the one or more first parameters being arranged in one or more sets associated with respective connection phases;
sending, to the NEF, a subscription request, the subscription request including the identifier of the application; and
receiving, from the NEF, a report indicative of an analysis of traffic of the application based at least on the one or more first parameters.