US 12,267,179 B2
Method of and a session management function for provisioning a user plane function, a method of and a user plane function for processing user traffic and a method of and charging function for charging user traffic
Erik Wikström, Gothenburg (SE); Carlos Jimenez Cordon, Madrid (ES); and Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/793,272
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Mar. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/057017
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/144041, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20382024 (EP), filed on Jan. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0362024 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/14 (2024.01); H04W 80/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 12/1407 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1432 (2013.01); H04W 80/10 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of provisioning, by a Session Management Function, SMF, processing rules for user traffic at a User Plane Function, UPF, in a core network of a telecommunication network, said core network comprising an Access and Mobility Management Function, AMF and a Policy Control Function, PCF, said method comprising the steps of:
transmitting, by said SMF, to said PCF a request for obtaining processing rules for user traffic;
receiving, by said SMF, from said PCF, the processing rules that enable at least one of a Uniform Resource Identifier, URI, level processing policy and a Server Name Indication, SNI, level processing policy for said user traffic, wherein the URI level processing policy and the SNI level processing policy configure the UPF to perform a URI level traffic measurement and an SNI level traffic measurement on a per URI and per SNI basis, and
provisioning, by said SMF, said received processing rules with said UPF.