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公开(公告)号:US11895033B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-06
申请号:US16185795
申请日:2018-11-09
申请人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
发明人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
IPC分类号: H04L47/20 , H04W72/56 , H04L67/104 , H04W88/02 , H04L12/18
CPC分类号: H04L47/20 , H04L12/189 , H04L67/104 , H04W72/56 , H04W88/02
摘要: Application Function (AF) influenced routing for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications is provided. Core network elements correlate PDU sessions and optimize the UP path for peer-to-peer traffic. UP selection, reselection, configuration or reconfiguration can be performed in support of P2P traffic routing. P2P traffic between a pair of UEs is routed or rerouted through a bridge. The bridge may be established between the first UP and the second UP, and/or between associated RAN nodes. One or more application functions can be included along the bridge path. A policy control function (PCF) directs underlying resources to route P2P traffic via the bridge, for example in response to a trigger from the AF. A session management function (SMF) directs underlying resources to configure or reconfigure user plane data paths to route P2P traffic via the bridge. First and second SMFs of the first and second UPs can cooperate to establish the desired traffic routing. One or more UPFs can be configured to support P2P traffic detection.
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公开(公告)号:US11368873B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US16217923
申请日:2018-12-12
申请人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Xu Li , Hang Zhang
发明人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Xu Li , Hang Zhang
摘要: Methods, systems and architectures are described which provide at least one aggregated tunnel protocol, in addition to the existing per PDU session tunnel protocols (1, 2, . . . N). When the UE requests a new PDU session or a new QoS flow, the SMF may establish a Per PDU Session Tunnel to serve this PDU session. Alternatively, an Aggregated Tunnel may be selected to serve the PDU session or to serve the QoS flow. When a packet from a UE arrives, the receiving network function can send this packet either using a per PDU session tunnel protocol or aggregated tunnel protocol.
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公开(公告)号:US10972575B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-06
申请号:US15989863
申请日:2018-05-25
申请人: Xu Li , Hang Zhang , Ngoc Dung Dao
发明人: Xu Li , Hang Zhang , Ngoc Dung Dao
摘要: A method, apparatus and system for supporting Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in a network such as a 5G communication network. Application Function (AF) request data is received from an AF operating in the network in support of MEC, stored in memory, and transmitted from the memory to one or more Policy Control Functions (PCFs) operating in the network. Subscribing PCFs may be notified of the receipt and storage of the data and request retrieval of the data. The data may be stored and handled by a function referred to as the Application Data Repository, or by another data repository. The operations may be performed by a network function such as but not limited to an Application Data Repository function. The function can store the AF request data and notify the PCFs. The function can handle AF requests associated with roaming UEs.
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公开(公告)号:US10462840B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15862287
申请日:2018-01-04
申请人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
发明人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
IPC分类号: H04W76/30 , H04W76/27 , H04W76/10 , H04L29/08 , H04W36/14 , H04W36/00 , H04W24/10 , H04W80/10 , H04W28/24
摘要: A network architecture and methods of managing packet data unit (PDU) sessions in a network are provided. The methods include PDU session establishment procedures, PDU session modification procedures, PDU session state transfer procedures, PDU session release procedures, and user equipment (UE) handover procedures.
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公开(公告)号:US11412556B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-09
申请号:US16945376
申请日:2020-07-31
申请人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
发明人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
摘要: A network function and a method for associating a UE of a UE group to a PDU session with in a CN. The NF establishes a shared PDU session for the UE group before all of the UEs in the UE group register with the CN and binds a UE that has not yet registered with the CN to the shared PDU session when the UE registers with the CN, provided the UE will share at least one of a UL UP connection and a DL UP connection associated with the shared PDU session. The NF may be an SMF.
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公开(公告)号:US10999892B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-04
申请号:US16665345
申请日:2019-10-28
申请人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Patrice Hede , Hang Zhang
发明人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Patrice Hede , Hang Zhang
摘要: An aspect of the disclosure provides for a method for user equipment (UE) internet protocol (IP) address management. The method includes sending by an application function (AF), a request to a policy control function (PCF), the request including information identifying traffic and an indication that a UE IP address associated with the traffic should be preserved. The method further includes sending by the PCF, to a session management function (SMF) being responsible for managing a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with the traffic, a policy and charging control (PCC) rule including the indication. In some embodiments, the request is sent by the AF to the PCF via a network exposure function (NEF). In some embodiments, the method further includes managing, by the SMF, the UE IP address according to the PCC rule. In some embodiments, the managing includes preserving the UE IP address for a PDU session associated with the traffic. In some embodiments, the preserving includes preventing reselection of a protocol data unit (PDU) session anchor (PSA) to which the UE IP address is associated.
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公开(公告)号:US10972552B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-06
申请号:US15712820
申请日:2017-09-22
申请人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
发明人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
摘要: Aspects of the disclosure provide a system and method used for allowing a path selection or reselection (hereby (re)selection). In some embodiments data packets for a session between a UE and an application system (AS) can utilize a pre-established user plane path between the AS and an access node (AN) which serves the UE. This can allow for faster session set-up times as a new user plane (UP) path need not be established for every new session if existing UP paths can be utilized. Some embodiments allow an application aware (re)selection of the user plane.
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公开(公告)号:US10820368B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-27
申请号:US16571714
申请日:2019-09-16
申请人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
发明人: Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang , Xu Li
IPC分类号: H04W76/30 , H04W76/34 , H04W76/27 , H04W76/10 , H04L29/08 , H04W36/14 , H04W36/00 , H04W88/14 , H04W24/10 , H04W80/10 , H04W28/24
摘要: A network architecture and methods of managing packet data unit (PDU) sessions in a network are provided. The methods include PDU session establishment procedures, PDU session modification procedures, PDU session state transfer procedures, PDU session release procedures, and user equipment (UE) handover procedures.
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公开(公告)号:US10652784B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US15718823
申请日:2017-09-28
申请人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Aaron James Callard , Hang Zhang
发明人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Aaron James Callard , Hang Zhang
摘要: A method and apparatus for supporting node-level tunneling for mobile user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network such as a 5th generation network.
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公开(公告)号:US11445335B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-13
申请号:US16540877
申请日:2019-08-14
申请人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
发明人: Xu Li , Ngoc Dung Dao , Hang Zhang
IPC分类号: H04W48/18 , H04W12/37 , H04W12/08 , H04W4/08 , H04M15/00 , H04L12/18 , H04W12/06 , H04L61/5069 , H04L9/40 , H04L61/10 , H04W12/033
摘要: The present invention provides systems and methods and apparatuses for enabling private communication between user equipments (UEs) in a (LAN) UE group. The UEs in the (LAN) UE group can communicate with each other using IP and/or non-IP type communication services. The communications between these UEs may take place in the form of point to point (e.g. UE to UE) communication or point to multi-point communication (e.g. UE to multiple UEs) as opposed to UE to Data Network (DN) communication.
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