US 11,943,135 B2
Establishing a new QOS flow for a data connection
Apostolis Salkintzis, Athens (GR)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park (SG)
Appl. No. 17/761,979
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park (SG)
PCT Filed Sep. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/074920
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/052573, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0393972 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04L 47/80 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/3065 (2013.01) [H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 47/805 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gateway apparatus comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the gateway apparatus to:
support a first data connection between the gateway apparatus and a user plane function (UPF) in a fifth generation (5G) core network, the first data connection supporting a plurality of quality of service (QoS) flows over a first access network;
receive a first request from a user equipment (UE) and over a second access network, the first request containing a first set of parameters for establishing a second data connection with the UE over the second access network;
determine whether the second data connection can be mapped to one of the plurality of QoS flows over the first data connection;
send a second request to establish a QoS flow over the first data connection in response to determining that the second data connection cannot be mapped to one of the plurality of QoS flows over the first data connection, the second request containing a second set of parameters derived from the first set of parameters; and
relay data traffic between the second data connection and the new QoS flow over the first data connection.