US 11,700,551 B2
Apparatus for supporting and influencing QoS levels
Riccardo Trivisonno, Munich (DE); Qing Wei, Munich (DE); Mirko Schramm, Berlin (DE); Apostolos Kousaridas, Munich (DE); Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Munich (DE); and Dario Serafino Tonesi, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/996,289.
Application 16/996,289 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2018/054036, filed on Feb. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383006 A1, Dec. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 28/24 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2023.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/24 (2013.01) [H04M 15/66 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 28/0925 (2020.05); H04W 28/0967 (2020.05)] 18 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
configuring, by an application function (AF) in a mobile network system, a policy control function (PCF) to provide a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) levels for a session related to an application or a service;
sending, by the AF, a request signal to the PCF, wherein the request signal comprises a request to the PCF to associate a QoS flow having a QoS flow identifier (QFI) with a plurality of QoS profiles for configuring the plurality of QoS levels, and the request signal comprises the plurality of QoS levels; and
wherein the request signal instructs the PCF to switch from a current QoS profile of the plurality of QoS profiles to another QoS profile of the plurality of QoS profiles in response to a modification of one or more parameters of a PDU session.