US 12,439,291 B2
Quality of service framework enhancements for 5G service
Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Munich (DE); Pavan Nuggehalli, San Carlos, CA (US); Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US); Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US); and Haijing Hu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/882,765.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/240,302, filed on Sep. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0069008 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0268 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1642 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to cause a wireless device to:
establish a service data flow (SDF) with an application function (AF) via a cellular network;
determine that the SDF includes at least two categories of data, wherein a first category of data for the SDF has different Quality of Service (QOS) parameters than a second category of data for the SDF;
identify a relationship between a first QoS Flow associated with a first QoS flow indicator (QFI) and a second QoS Flow associated with a second QFI based on parsing of uplink or downlink packets, wherein the relationship comprises the first QoS Flow depending on the second QoS Flow;
indicate the relationship to the cellular network using a protocol data unit (PDU) session modification request;
receive, from the cellular network, a PDU session modification command responsive to the PDU session modification request;
communicate the first category of data for the SDF using the first QoS Flow; and
communicate the second category of data for the SDF using the second QoS Flow,
wherein the first category of data for the SDF and the second category of data for the SDF are communicated using the first QoS Flow and the second QoS Flow based at least in part on determining that the first category of data for the SDF has different QoS parameters than the second category of data for the SDF, and wherein scheduling of the first QOS Flow and the second QoS Flow is based at least in part on the relationship between them, wherein packets of the first QoS Flow and the second QoS flow are scheduled together.