US 12,363,558 B2
Association with a network data analytics function
Ulf Mattsson, Kungsbacka (SE); Aldo Bolle, Västra Frölunda (SE); Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Pozuelo de Alarcon (ES); and Stefan Håkansson, Gothenburg (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/788,858
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Dec. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/085224
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/136634, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20382001 (EP), filed on Jan. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0036465 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 60/04 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) in a network, the method comprising: sending, to a Unified Data Management (UDM) function in the network, a registration request to register the NWDAF, wherein the registration request identifies the following: the NWDAF, an association between the NWDAF and a User Equipment (UE) in the network, and an Analytics ID for analytics performed by the NWDAF for the UE; subsequently receiving, from another NWDAF in the network, a discovery request to discover an NWDAF instance that serves the UE in the network, wherein the discovery request identifies the following: the VE, and a type of analytics performed for the VE by the NWDAF instance that serves the UE; and sending to the other NWDAF a discovery response identifying the NWDAF as the NWDAE instance that serves the UE in the network.