US 11,963,124 B2 · Entities for providing an external service to a network

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. For example, the disclosure proposes network entities that are involved in at least one of registration of an external network entity or registration of one or more services provided by the external network entity, and entities that are involved in transfer of service traffic from an external network entity providing one or more services to another network entity consuming the one or more services. For instance, the disclosure proposes a network entity for supporting at least one of registration of the external network entity or registration of one or more services of the external network entity at another network entity.

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Dependent claims

A network entity for supporting at least one of registration of an external network entity, or registration of a service provided by the external network entity at another network entity, wherein the network entity is configured to:

obtain a first registration information from the external network entity, wherein the first registration information includes a service profile;
create a clone of the service based on the first registration information;
provide a second registration information to the another network entity, wherein the second registration information includes a clone service profile associated with the clone of the service, wherein the second registration information is an update of the registration of the network entity;
obtain a first registration response from the another network entity, wherein the first registration response is responsive to the second registration information;
and
provide a second registration response to the external network entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Entities for providing an external service to a network

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Abstract

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