US 12,081,425 B2
Reporting service for dynamic status information on a data link
Lars Nord, Lund (SE); and Svante Alnås, Lund (SE)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/787,542
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/085157
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/136633, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2030001-8 (SE), filed on Jan. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0393958 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 43/091 (2022.01); H04L 43/065 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 43/091 (2022.05) [H04L 43/065 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a node of a communications network, the node being configured to support at least one data link between the communications network and a terminal, the method comprising:
providing registration data for a reporting service on dynamic status information of the at least one data link to an exposure node of the communications network;
upon receiving a subscription request for a subscription to the reporting service, establishing the subscription to the reporting service between the node and an external application node associated with the subscription request; and
providing the dynamic status information in accordance with the subscription to the external application node,
wherein the node is a control-plane core network node or a user-plane core network node of a core network of the communications network,
wherein a data service associated with the reporting service is provided for supporting communication of data between the terminal and the external application node along the at least one data link.