US 12,363,233 B2
Application awareness of credit conditions in communication network
Susana Fernandez Alonso, Madrid (ES); Fuencisla Garcia Azorero, Madrid (ES); Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Madrid (ES); and Juying Gan, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/908,358
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/055422
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 31, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/204470, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20382278 (EP), filed on Apr. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0099649 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 15/00 (2024.01); H04M 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 15/66 (2013.01) [H04M 15/852 (2013.01); H04M 15/888 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by an application function (AF) for a 5G communication network, the method comprising:
sending, to a Policy Control Function (PCF) for the 5G communication network, a subscription request for notifications about out-of-credit events and reallocation-of-credit events associated with one or more users of a service provided by the AF;
performing one or more first actions with respect to the service based on a first notification about an out-of-credit event associated with a first one of the first users of the service provided by the AF;
subsequently receiving, from the PCF, a second notification of a reallocation-of-credit event associated with the first user of the service provided by the AF; and
in response to the second notification, performing one or more second actions with respect to the service based on an indication, provided to the communication network, of whether the communication network should revert to one or more service requirements applicable before the out-of-credit event.