US 12,425,914 B2
Technologies for control and management of multiple traffic steering services
Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US); Ching-Yu Liao, Portland, OR (US); Zongrui Ding, Portland, OR (US); Dario Sabella, Munich (DE); and Miltiadis Filippou, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/437,711
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/033261
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/232404, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/883,540, filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/882,906, filed on Aug. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/849,076, filed on May 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0259857 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/084 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 28/0252 (2013.01) [H04W 28/084 (2023.05); H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus to be employed as a Multi-access Traffic Steering (MTS) service provider to provide MTS services in a network including multiple access networks, the apparatus comprising:
interface circuitry arranged to:
receive a request message for MTS service information (MtsInfo) from an application instance, wherein the request message includes an identifier of the application instance;
based on the request message, transmit traffic information for the application instance, including a multi-access traffic steering capability message comprising an indication of the multiple access networks and supported multi-access traffic steering modes in the multiple access networks;
receive a multi-access traffic steering request message from the application instance, the multi-access traffic steering request message including a session identifier (sessionId) representing an individual session of the application instance and a traffic steering mode (mtsMode) indicating one or more preferences of the application instance on how to steer traffic of the individual session among the multiple access networks and the supported multi-access traffic steering modes; and
transmit a multi-access traffic steering response to the application instance in response to the multi-access traffic steering request message, wherein the multi-access traffic steering response includes the request identifier and an indication of whether the one or more preferences are accepted or rejected; and
processor circuitry communicatively coupled with the interface circuitry, the processor circuitry arranged to steer, in response to receipt of the multi-access traffic steering request message, when the one or more preferences are accepted, traffic corresponding to the sessionId over one or more access network connections of the multiple access networks according to the mtsMode.