US 11,917,713 B2
Methods and apparatuses for accessing a service outside a mobile communications network in a multipath connection
Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Madrid (ES); Marc Molla, Madrid (ES); Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES); and Alfonso de Jesus Perez Martinez, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/042,729
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Sep. 10, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/074346
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/185179, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18382214 (EP), filed on Mar. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022204 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/34 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/34 (2018.02) [H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 28/0252 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating an application server providing a service to a multipath enabled mobile entity connected to the application server with a first bearer of a first access network of a first mobile communications network, wherein the application server is external to the mobile communications network, the method comprising:
the application server receiving an indication generated and sent by an application running on the mobile entity, wherein the indication indicates that the mobile entity has an option to use another bearer not belonging to the first mobile communications network for accessing the application server that is configured to provide the service via the application; and
the application server transmitting a request message towards a policy control entity of the first mobile communications network requesting the policy control entity to disconnect the first bearer, wherein the indication indicates:
(i) that the application is using a communication network that is different from the mobile communications network; or
(ii) that a connection is established without enrichment of a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier (ID) or a different PLMN ID.