US 12,413,959 B2
Operation of a user equipment within or as part of a telecommunications network using a control plane functionality
Josep Colom Ikuno, Korneuburg (AT); and Reinhard Lauster, St. Poelten (AT)
Assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG, Bonn (DE)
Appl. No. 18/294,555
Filed by Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 2, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/071705
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/012164, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 9, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 21189476 (EP), filed on Aug. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0276206 A1, Aug. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 8/22 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/22 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a user equipment within a telecommunications network, the method comprising:
providing, by the user equipment, pieces of endpoint-related information regarding an application programming interface of a specific service endpoint of the user equipment to a user equipment service endpoint registry functionality for use by a plurality of network nodes of the telecommunications network, wherein the user equipment service endpoint registry functionality is part of an access network of the telecommunications network or part of a core network of the telecommunications network, wherein the provision of pieces of endpoint-related information is part of a network registration procedure of the user equipment with the telecommunications network, and wherein the pieces of endpoint-related information define the application programming interface that the specific service endpoint of the user equipment is able to provide to the plurality of network nodes of the telecommunications network, and enable the user equipment service endpoint registry functionality to:
register the application programming interface provided by the specific service endpoint; and/or
provide address information for accessing the specific service endpoint;
receiving, by the user equipment, from a requesting network node part of the access network of the telecommunications network or part of the core network of the telecommunications network, a request message related to the application programming interface provided by the specific service endpoint of the user equipment, wherein the request message corresponds to an application programming interface call message to be received and processed by the specific service endpoint and comprises address information related to the specific service endpoint; and
processing, by the specific service endpoint, the received request message;
wherein operation of the user equipment within the telecommunications network is conducted using a control plane functionality, wherein the specific service endpoint of the user equipment is related to the control plane functionality, and wherein the specific service endpoint communicates with a control plane network element of the telecommunications network via a control plane channel; and
wherein the core network of the telecommunications network provides the user equipment with data connectivity towards a data network.