US 12,075,495 B2
Apparatus and method for processing traffic of service in wireless communication system
Sangsoo Jeong, Suwon-si (KR); and Kisuk Kweon, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/058,407.
Application 18/058,407 is a continuation of application No. 17/002,745, filed on Aug. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,528,756.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0104688 (KR), filed on Aug. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094746 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 92/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/10 (2018.02) [H04W 92/24 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a network repository function (NRF) entity in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a user plane function (UPF) entity, a network function (NF) register request message including a UPF profile of the UPF entity;
storing the UPF profile, wherein the UPF entity is marked as available;
receiving, from a session management function (SMF) entity which is a NF service consumer, a NF discovery request message including at least one of information on a NF service name, information on a NF type indicating a UPF, information on a NF type of the NF service consumer, information on a NF set identifier, or information on a NF service set identifier;
determining the UPF entity based on the UPF profile and the NF discovery request message; and
transmitting, to the SMF entity, a NF discovery response message as a response to the NF discovery request message, wherein the NF discovery response message includes information on the UPF entity.