US 12,431,998 B2
Working clock determination for a mobile user equipment
Devaki Chandramouli, Plano, TX (US); Dawid Koziol, Wroclaw (PL); Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan, Aschaffenburg (DE); and Pilar Andrés Maldonado, Aalborg (DK)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 18/006,436
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jul. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/069744
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 23, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/028844, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/061,502, filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269016 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04J 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04J 3/0667 (2013.01) [H04J 3/0641 (2013.01); H04J 3/12 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a user plane function (UPF), time domain information for a protocol data unit (PDU) session;
updating local information associating the time domain information and a user equipment or the PDU session based on one or more parameters related to the user equipment, the one or more parameters comprising information relating to one or more of a mobility event, a location, or a traffic inspection;
receiving a time protocol packet;
determining whether to send the time protocol packet to the user equipment for a given PDU session based on the received time domain information; and
based on the determination, sending the time protocol packet to the user equipment for the given PDU session or performing other forwarding action to the time protocol packet.