US 12,256,321 B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reporting a reserved load to network functions in a communications network
Rajiv Krishan, Bangalore (IN); and Sonal Jain, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US)
Filed by Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/751,572.
Prior Publication US 2023/0379809 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 28/0284 (2013.01); H04W 28/0846 (2020.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for reporting a reserved load to a network function (NF) in a communications network, the method comprising:
determining, by a NF service producer, a current compute load metric value for the NF service producer operating in a communications network;
detecting, by the NF service producer, a number of active sessions currently being handled by the NF service producer;
deriving, by the NF service producer, a reserved compute load metric value by multiplying the number of active sessions currently being handled by the NF service producer by a predictive reserved load percentage value to produce an estimate of subsequent service message traffic on the active sessions currently being handled by the NF service producer and computing the reserved compute load metric value as a percentage by which the estimate of predicted subsequent message traffic is expected increase the current compute load metric value of the NF service producer; and
calculating, by the NF service producer, an adjusted reported compute load metric value amounting to a sum of the current compute load metric value and the reserved compute load metric value.