US 12,408,108 B2
Filters for bulk subscriptions
Fuencisla Garcia Azorero, Madrid (ES); Ignacio Rivas Molina, Madrid (ES); and Susana Fernandez Alonso, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/522,695.
Application 18/522,695 is a continuation of application No. 17/290,069, granted, now 11,871,339, previously published as PCT/IB2019/057300, filed on Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18382786 (EP), filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0098631 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 8/183 (2013.01); H04W 8/186 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a first node, the method comprising:
the first node establishing a subscription to event notifications for one or more user equipments (UEs), wherein establishing the subscription to the event notifications comprises sending to a Policy and Control Function (PCF) a request message comprising a request uniform resource identifier (URI) and a request body comprising an event exposure subscription data structure, wherein the event exposure subscription data structure comprises:
(i) an event subscription attribute identifying a policy event,
(ii) a URI attribute specifying a notification URI where to receive the requested notifications,
(iii) a notification identifier (ID) attribute specifying a correlation ID assigned by the first node, and
(iv) event report filter information comprising a set of identifiers, the set of identifiers comprising a first network identifier and/or a first network slice identifier; and
the first node receiving a notification about the event, wherein the notification was transmitted by the PCF and the notification is a message that comprises said notification URI and further comprises an event exposure notification data structure that comprises: (i) the correlation ID and (ii) an event notifications attribute comprising information about the event.