Systems and methods for accessing multiple application servers via a service capability exposure function

A computer device comprising:

• a memory configured to store instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
• receive a message from a user equipment (UE) device via a Mobility Management Entity (MME), wherein the computer device is configured as a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) device, and wherein the SCEF device is configured to support multiple application server connections for the UE device via a single Access Point Name (APN) associated with the computing device;
• identify an application server associated with the message based on one or more application server identifiers included in the received message;
• map uplink data, included in the received message and associated with the identified application server, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the identified application server;
• send the mapped uplink data to the identified application server using the API associated with the identified application server;
• receive another message from the MME associated with the UE device;
• determine that the received other message does not include an application server identifier;
• and
• send a message to all application servers associated with the UE device, in response to determining that the received other message does not include an application server identifier.

A system comprising:

• a Mobility Management Entity (MME) device configured to:
• receive a message from a user equipment (UE) device;
• and
• send a Diameter protocol T6a interface message based on the received message, wherein the Diameter protocol T6a message includes an MO-Data-Request message that includes an attribute-value pair that identifies the one or more application server identifiers;
• and
• a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) device configured to:
• support multiple application server connections for the UE device via a single Access Point Name (ANP) associated with the computing device;
• receive the Diameter protocol T6a interface message from the MME device;
• identify an application server associated with the Diameter protocol T6a interface message based on the one or more application server identifiers included in the received Diameter protocol T6a interface message;
• map uplink data, included in the received Diameter protocol T6a interface message and associated with the identified application server, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the identified application server;
• and
• send the mapped uplink data to the identified application server using the API associated with the identified application server.