US 12,177,930 B2
Methods and apparatuses for accessing a service outside a mobile communications network in a multipath connection
Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Madrid (ES); Marc Molla, Madrid (ES); Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Madrid (ES); and Alfonso de Jesus Perez Martinez, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/398,048.
Application 18/398,048 is a division of application No. 17/042,729, granted, now 11,917,713, previously published as PCT/EP2018/074346, filed on Sep. 10, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 18382214 (EP), filed on Mar. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0130001 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 76/34 (2018.01); H04L 67/141 (2022.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/34 (2018.02) [H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 28/0252 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 84/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a session management entity in a first mobile communications network, the method comprising:
requesting from a policy control entity of the first mobile communication network which multipath enabled mobile entities are connected to an application server which provides a service to the connected mobile entities via first bearers of a first access network of the first mobile communications network, and which of the multipath enabled mobile entities use a multipath connection to the application server, wherein the application server is external to the first mobile communications network;
receiving a response from the policy control entity including a list of possible mobile entities that use the multipath connection to the application server;
selecting at least one mobile entity from the list of possible mobile entities which should not access the application server via the corresponding first bearer; and
transmitting an indication towards the at least one mobile entity indicating that the at least one mobile entity should stop using the corresponding first bearer for the connection to the application server.