	US 12,261,689 B2
	Method and apparatus for redundancy improvement in a communication system
Devaki Chandramouli, Plano, TX (US); Laurent Thiebaut, Antony (FR); Nicolas Drevon, Paris (FR); and Yannick Lair, Voisins le Bretonneux (FR)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,747.
Application 17/392,747 is a continuation of application No. 16/834,980, filed on Mar. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,121,801.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/827,652, filed on Apr. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0367703 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)

CPC H04L 1/0025 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0017 (2013.01); H04L 1/0031 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02)]

20 Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, from a user equipment in a communication network, to a network element of the communication network, a traffic redundancy indication,

wherein the traffic redundancy indication targets a subset of traffic, and

wherein the traffic redundancy indication indicates whether traffic redundancy is needed for a radio access network and a user plane function; and

in an instance in which the traffic redundancy indication provided by the user equipment to the network element of the communication network indicates that traffic redundancy is needed for the radio access network and the user plane function, applying, by the user equipment, redundancy mechanisms for the traffic redundancy based on the traffic redundancy indication being provided by the user equipment to the network element.