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US 10,484,451 B2Granted
Virtual network state management in mobile edge computing
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsJaya Rao, Xu Li, Dilip Andrade
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Abstract
In an embodiment a method is provided for processing a computational task using a network node available on a network processing. The method including the network node performing the steps of processing a computational task, and transmitting at least one snapshot of state data related to the computational task to a UE associated with that computational task. The at least one snapshot of state data enables the UE to resume processing of the computational task from a snapshot point represented by the state data.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- transmitting, by a user equipment (UE) to a mobility management/session management entity, a mobile edge computing (MEC) session request message;
- receiving, by the UE, a MEC session response message sent by the mobility management/session management entity, the MEC session response message including UE configuration information, the UE configuration comprising including an identifier of a MEC node assigned to the MEC session request and MEC hand-off trigger information;
- transmitting, by the UE to the MEC node identified by the identifier included in the UE configuration information, a software image of an application to be executed as a network function at the MEC node and data associated with the application;
- determining, by a UE, whether to send a hand-off request to the mobility management/session management entity based on the MEC hand-off trigger information and a location of the UE
- transmitting, by a UE, the handoff request to the mobility management/session management entity in response to determining to send the hand-off request to the mobility management/session management entity based on the MEC hand-off trigger information and a location of the UE;
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- receiving, by the UE, current state data sent by the MEC node, state data indicating a current state of the application being executed as a network function at the MEC node.
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A user equipment (UE) comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory memory storing computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the UE to:
- transmit to a mobility management/session management entity, a mobile edge computing (MEC) session request message;
- receive a MEC session response message sent by the mobility management/session management entity, the MEC session response message including UE configuration information, the UE configuration information comprising an identifier of a MEC node assigned to the MEC session request and MEC hand-off trigger information;
- transmit to the MEC node identified by the identifier included in the UE configuration information, a software image of an application to be executed as a network function at the MEC node and data associated with the application;
- determine whether to send a hand-off request to the mobility management/session management entity based on the MEC hand-off trigger information and a location of the UE
- transmit the handoff request to the mobility management/session management entity in response to determining to send the hand-off request to the mobility management/session management entity based on the MEC hand-off trigger information and a location of the UE;
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- receive current state data sent by the MEC node, state data indicating a current state of the application being executed as a network function at the MEC node.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.