US 12,335,100 B2
Server availability checking for edge computing services
Sunghoon Kim, San Diego, CA (US); Nishant Gupta, Bangalore (IN); Dario Serafino Tonesi, San Diego, CA (US); Alan Soloway, Erie, CO (US); Tom Chin, San Diego, CA (US); and Ajith Tom Payyappilly, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,948.
Claims priority of application No. 202241003526 (IN), filed on Jan. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0239215 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/12 (2013.01) [H04L 67/141 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
a processor;
memory coupled with the processor; and
instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
receive, from an application client of the UE at an edge enabler client of the UE and via an interface between the application client and the edge enabler client, a request to identify one or more edge application servers for one or more services of the application client, the request including information associated with the one or more edge application servers and including a profile of the application client, and wherein the information in the request comprises a list of domain names for which to identify the one or more edge application servers;
perform, at the edge enabler client and using the list of domain names, a discovery procedure to identify the one or more edge application servers based at least in part on the information and the profile of the application client included in the request;
match each domain name of at least a subset of the list of domain names to a respective edge application server in a set of edge application servers; and
send, to the application client from the edge enabler client, a response to the request based at least in part on performing the discovery procedure, wherein the response comprises an indication of the respective edge application server matched to each domain name.