US 12,267,772 B2
Method and apparatus for managing network slice for terminal device
Cheng Wang, Shanghai (CN); Ping Chen, Shanghai (CN); Xiao Li, Shanghai (CN); and Huiwei Zheng, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/611,336
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed May 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/089778
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/228698, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2019/087050 (WO), filed on May 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0240173 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 40/248 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed at a server function, comprising:
determining to change a network slice for a group of terminal devices, wherein the change of the network slice comprises change from a source network slice to a target network slice; and
transmitting, to an exposure function, a request to change the network slice for the group of terminal devices, wherein the request includes an identifier of the group of terminal devices;
transmitting, to the exposure function, a request for updating a User Equipment, UE, Route Selection Policy, URSP, for the terminal device.