US 11,991,260 B2
Dynamic service discovery and offloading framework for edge computing based cellular network systems
Biljana Badic, Munich (DE); Christian Drewes, Munich (DE); Ralph Hasholzner, Munich (DE); Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US); Teck Yang Lee, Cupertino, CA (US); Matthias Sauer, Campbell, CA (US); Mikhail Vilgelm, Munich (DE); Babar Qaisrani, Los Altos, CA (US); Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US); and Robert Zaus, Neubiberg (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/439,481
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/065627
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/194583, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/993,347, filed on Mar. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0360645 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 67/59 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04W 4/50 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 67/59 (2022.05) [H04L 67/51 (2022.05); H04W 4/50 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to cause a cellular network element to:
receive an edge computing availability request from a user equipment (UE), wherein the edge computing availability request includes information identifying the UE and information identifying an application executing on the UE; and
transmit an edge computing availability reply to the UE in response to the edge computing availability request, wherein the edge computing availability reply includes information regarding an available edge server and its site capability information,
wherein the site capability information includes information regarding computation capabilities of the available edge server and a maximum response time between the UE and the available edge server.