US 12,463,771 B2
Mobile network user plane with access network user plane function
Zhaohui Zhang, Westford, MA (US); Constantine Dimitrios-Polychronopoulos, Saratoga, CA (US); and Arda Akman, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/626,265.
Application 18/626,265 is a continuation of application No. 17/657,582, filed on Mar. 31, 2022, granted, now 11,979,349.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/264,075, filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0250789 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/04 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 5/0048 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0064 (2013.01); H04W 8/04 (2013.01); H04W 28/0263 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system comprising:
processing circuitry in communication with storage media, the processing circuitry configured to execute an access network user plane function (ANUP) for a mobile network, the ANUP configured to:
execute an access network protocol to implement a protocol data unit (PDU) session with a user equipment (UE);
advertise, to a data network, a host route comprising an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the UE;
route or switch packets between the data network and the PDU session with the UE based on the host route; and
implement, with a mobile core network for the mobile network, a common interface that provides a combination of an N2 interface and an N4 interface.