US 12,150,208 B2
Group data management in 5G core network (5GC)
David Castellanos Zamora, Madrid (ES); Emiliano Merino Vazquez, Madrid (ES); Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Pozuelo de Alarcon (ES); and Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/431,333
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Dec. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/086812
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/169242, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19382134 (EP), filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141647 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/186 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for provisioning subscription data for a plurality of subscribers forming a group of subscribers to one or more network functions (NFs) in a communication network, the method comprising:
storing group data related to the group of subscribers in association with at least a first group identifier (GID) but not in association with individual subscription data for each respective subscriber of the group of subscribers;
sending to the one or more NFs, the group data for the group of subscribers and the first GID associated with the group data without regard to a registration status of group members in the one or more NFs; and
sending to a particular NF of the one or more NFs, the first GID and individual subscription data for a particular subscriber of the group of subscribers, the individual subscription data for the particular subscriber being (i) separate from the group data and (ii) not being associated with the first GID for the group data.