System and method for using T8 API to deliver data over an IP path
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsYe Huang, Michael R. Waters, Gerardo S. Libunao, Sameer Muhammad Farooqi
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Abstract
A system may receive a request from the UE device to establish a session over a user plane of a network; establish a session over the user plane in response to the request from the UE device; receive, at a first node, uplink IP data from the UE device over the session; redirect the received IP data at the first node to a second node for translating IP data to a T8 message; translate, at the second node, the redirected IP data to a first T8 message; and forward the first T8 message to an application server or an application function (AF) node.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more network interfaces to communicate with a user equipment (UE) device;
- and
- one or more processors to:
- receive a request from the UE device to establish a session over a user plane of a network;
- establish the session over the user plane in response to the request from the UE device;
- receive, at a first node comprising a User Plane Function (UPF), an Internet Protocol (IP) message from the UE device over the session;
- redirect the received IP message at the first node to a second node comprising one of a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) or an IP proxy included in a Network Exposure Function (NEF) for translating the IP message to a first T8 message;
- translate, at the second node, the redirected IP message to the first T8 message, wherein translating the redirected IP message to the first T8 message includes converting a payload of the IP message into a payload of the first T8 message;
- and
- forward the first T8 message to an application server or an application function (AF) node.
A method comprising:
- receiving a request from a UE device to establish a session over a user plane of a network;
- establishing the session over the user plane in response to the request from the UE device;
- receiving, at a first node comprising a User Plane Function (UPF), an Internet Protocol (IP) message from the UE device over the session;
- redirecting the received IP message at the first node to a second node comprising one of a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) or an IP proxy included in a Network Exposure Function (NEF) for translating the IP message to a first T8 message;
- translating, at the second node, the redirected IP message to the first T8 message, wherein translating the redirected IP message to the first T8 message includes converting a payload of the IP message into a payload of the first T8 message;
- and
- forwarding the first T8 message to an application server or an application function (AF) node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.