US 12,089,146 B2
Determining a type of network connection from an OS-specific connection capability
Apostolis Salkintzis, Athen (GR); Dimitrios Karampatsis, Ruislip (GB); and Roozbeh Atarius, La Jolla, CA (US)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park (SG)
Appl. No. 16/325,381
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park (SG)
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/076452
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 13, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/064125, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0329541 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 76/16 (2018.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a User Equipment (“UE”), the method comprising:
receiving, from a mobile communication network, a UE Route Selection Policy (“URSP”) comprising a plurality of operating system (“OS”)-independent connection capabilities, wherein each routing policy rule of the URSP comprises a traffic descriptor component, and wherein each routing policy rule of the URSP comprises a respective OS-independent connection capability within the traffic descriptor component;
receiving a first request to establish a network connection, wherein the first request includes a first set of connection capabilities, each connection capability in the first set having an OS specific value that indicates an application requirement for the requested network connection, the OS specific value being selected from the group comprising: a service type, a transport network type, and a latency type;
deriving a second set of connection capabilities from the first set of connection capabilities by mapping the first set of connection capabilities to a respective OS-independent connection capability of the plurality of OS-independent connection capabilities, each connection capability in the second set having an OS-independent value that indicates an application requirement for the requested network connection; and
selecting a respective routing policy rule based on the second set of connection capabilities; and
sending a second request to the mobile communication network to establish a first type of network connection, wherein the first type of network connection is indicated by the respective routing policy rule.