US 12,132,602 B2
Edge integration control device and method for searching for a MEC application based on linkage triggering
Hyeon Soo Lee, Seoul (KR); Joon Woong Kim, Seoul (KR); Dong Hi Sim, Seoul (KR); and Min Geun Yoon, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SK TELECOM CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 18/017,917
Filed by SK TELECOM CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Jun. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/007206
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 25, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/039359, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0105226 (KR), filed on Aug. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0283511 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/02 (2013.01) [H04L 67/51 (2022.05)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An edge integration control device comprising:
an information register configured to acquire, from at least one Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Orchestrator (MEO), information related to at least one MEC system associated with the at least one MEO and at least one of MEC applications installed in the MEC system, and register the information in the information register; and
a linkage controller configured to:
receive an inter-MEC application request from a first MEO of the at least one MEO, the received inter-MEC application request includes identification information of a first MEC application and identification information of a second MEC application, wherein the inter-MEC application request is received when the first MEC application in a first MEC system associated with the first MEO requests linkage with the second MEC application, wherein the inter-MEC application request from the first MEO is received at the linkage controller when the first MEC application requests the linkage with the second MEC application and the second MEC application is not installed in the MEC system associated with the first MEO, and
in response to receiving the inter-MEC application request, to search for at least one of a MEC application and a MEC system to be linked based on the information registered in the information register for each of the at least one MEO, and
wherein the edge integration control device, which comprises the information register and the linkage controller, is disposed external from the first MEO.