US 12,256,447 B2
Multipath configuration and control for a wireless communications network
Veronica Sanchez Vega, Madrid (ES); and Miguel Angel Muñoz de la Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/768,682
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Jan. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/050210
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/093998, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19383011 (EP), filed on Nov. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0121842 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 69/14 (2022.01); H04L 69/16 (2022.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01); H04W 80/06 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01); H04L 69/16 (2013.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.02); H04W 80/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A policy control entity for a wireless communications network, in which a multipath transmission with at least two data packet sessions can be provided between a content provider and a user equipment, and wherein a first data packet session of the at least two data packet sessions is transmitted through the wireless communications network over a cellular access node and a second data packet sessions of the at least two data packet sessions is transmitted through the wireless communications network over a non-cellular access node, the policy control entity comprising:
memory configured to store instructions; and
processing circuitry operatively connected to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to cause the policy control entity to:
receive an establishment request from a network exposure entity to set up the multipath transmission, the establishment request comprising multipath information including a multipath indicator, indicating that the multipath transmission is requested, and a flow description for the first data packet session and the second data packet session;
determine, for at least the first data packet session and the second data packet session, a multipath transmission policy, to determine the multipath transmission policy, the processing circuitry is configured to execute the instructions to cause the policy control entity to:
transmit, in response to the establishment request, a transmission policy request, to a data repository; and
receive a corresponding multipath transmission policy from the data repository; and
transmit, in response to the establishment request, a response message to the network exposure entity including the multipath transmission policy.