公开(公告)号：US20230353997A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-02

申请号：US17793296

申请日：2021-01-08

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Walter FEATHERSTONE ,  Nishant GUPTA ,  Basavaraj Jayawant PATTAN ,  Lalith KUMAR ,  Nicholas HERRIOT

IPC: H04W4/50 ,  H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/50 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W28/08

CPC classification number: H04W4/50 ,  H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/5096 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W28/0992

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of providing a service in a Multi-access Edge Computing, MEC, network, comprising the steps of: providing a pod in an edge cloud node, wherein the pod comprises a software container for providing an application that offers a service to one or more subscribers; associating with the pod a status related to an active or registered subscriber, wherein an active subscriber is currently interacting with the pod and a registered subscriber is not currently interacting with the pod, but has interacted previously; wherein, provided that the pod has at least one registered subscriber, the pod is maintained in the edge cloud node.

公开(公告)号：US20230269135A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-24

申请号：US18012775

申请日：2021-06-25

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Nishant GUPTA ,  Deepanshu GAUTAM ,  Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0895

CPC classification number: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0895

Abstract: The present invention discloses a systema and method for deploying an Edge Configuration Server (ECS). The method comprising receiving, at a provider entity, an operation request for deploying an ECS from a consumer entity, wherein the operation request comprises one or more requirements associated with the ECS. Thereafter, the method identifies an ECSfunction Information Object Class (IOC) for creating an ECS instance, based on the one or more requirements included in the operation request and an IOC database, wherein the IOC database comprises a plurality of IOCs and deploys the ECS based on the identified ECSfunction IOC and the one or more requirements.

公开(公告)号：US20230075258A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：US17797019

申请日：2021-02-03

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: G06F9/48 ,  G06F9/50

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of operating a MEC system, comprising the step of instantiating a first application in the MEC system, which comprises the step of a first entity transmitting an application instantiation request to a second entity, wherein the application instantiation request comprises pre-emption information concerning the first application, such that the pre-emption information may be used to pre-empt the first application in the future, if required.

公开(公告)号：US20230291644A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-14

申请号：US18012782

申请日：2021-06-29

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Deepanshu GAUTAM ,  Nishant GUPTA ,  Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04W24/02

CPC classification number: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04W24/02

Abstract: in embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus for managing the lifecycle of edge enabler server (EES) are disclosed. SA6 has defined EAS and EES is a 3GPP network function deployed on the operators edge data network (EDN) being managed by the operator's management system. The lifecycle management of edge components and the lifecycle of EES, as 3GPP network function are managed which includes instantiation, termination, scaling, etc. Thus, 3GPP management system have the capability to provide EES lifecycle management including but not limited to instantiation, termination, scaling.

公开(公告)号：US20220405084A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17773757

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: G06F8/65

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of creating or updating an application context in a Multi-access Edge Computing, MEC, system, comprising the steps of: a) a device application posting a request to the MEC system to create or update the application context and to specify desired application location constraints; b) the MEC system authorising the request and creating or updating the application context in the MEC system and informing the device application accordingly; and c) the MEC system detecting a change in application location availability.

公开(公告)号：US20230254215A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-10

申请号：US18003304

申请日：2021-06-25

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Nishant GUPTA ,  Deepanshu GAUTAM ,  Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04L41/0895 ,  H04L41/40

CPC classification number: H04L41/0895 ,  H04L41/40

Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for deploying an Edge Device Network (EDN) is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by an Edge Computing Management Service Provider (ECMSP), an Edge Data Network (EDN) deployment request for creating an EDN instance associated with an EDNFunction class, wherein the EDN deployment request comprises one or more requirements associated with the EDN; identifying an EDNfunction Information Object Class (IOC) based on the one or more requirements included in the EDN deployment request; and deploying the EDN based on the identified EDNfunction IOC and the one or more requirements.

公开(公告)号：US20230247442A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18012073

申请日：2021-06-23

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Deepanshu GAUTAM ,  Nishant GUPTA ,  Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04W16/18 ,  H04W24/02

CPC classification number: H04W16/18 ,  H04W24/02

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method, for deploying an edge application server (EAS) is disclosed. The method includes receiving an EAS deployment request to create an EAS instance associated with an EASFunction class, identifying, based on the EAS deployment request, one or more requirements for the EAS instance, selecting an edge data network (EDN) based on the one or more requirements for the EAS instance, and creating a managed object instance (MOI) corresponding to the EAS deployment request.

公开(公告)号：US20220110022A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17495349

申请日：2021-10-06

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Walter FEATHERSTONE ,  Hyesung KIM ,  Nishant GUPTA

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W28/12 ,  H04L12/721

Abstract: A method of determining a communication path between a source edge application server (sEAS) and a target edge application server (tEAS) are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of possible communication paths between the sEAS and the tEAS, and selecting one of the plurality of possible communication paths between the sEAS and the tEAS according to one or more predefined criteria.

公开(公告)号：US20250030595A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18787545

申请日：2024-07-29

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Deepanshu GAUTAM ,  Nishant GUPTA ,  Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04W24/02

Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, a method by a first network node includes transmitting, to a second network node, a request for creating a managed object instance (MOI), the request including one or more requirements related to an edge enabler server (EES), and receiving, from the second network node, a response including information associated with the MOI for an EESfunction information object class (IOC) created based on the one or more requirements included in the request, wherein the created MOI includes one or more attributes indicated in the EESfunction IOC, and wherein the one or more attributes include an identifier of the EES, serving location information for the EES, and information indicating whether the EES supports service continuity.

公开(公告)号：US20220393944A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17833141

申请日：2022-06-06

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Walter FEATHERSTONE

IPC: H04L41/0893 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04W76/18

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for managing an application instance by a multi-access edge computing orchestrator (MEO) in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system in a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate, with the method including receiving, from an operational support system (OSS), an application instantiation request including a completion timer in which to finish the instantiation request; selecting at least one MEC platform manager (MEPM) for requesting the application instantiation; transmitting, to the selected MEPM, the application instantiation request; and transmitting, to the OSS, a response indicating that the application instantiation has failed, in case that the completion timer expires before receiving a configuration response from the selected MEPM.