Method and apparatus for service discovery
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolagget LM Ericsson (Publ)
InventorsXiaowei Zhang, Peng Li, Cheng Wang
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for service discovery. The method may comprise sending a first service discovery request including forward information indicating that the first service discovery request has been processed by one or more network function repository nodes to a second network function repository node; and receiving a first service discovery response from the second network function repository node.
Claims18
A method at a first network function repository node, comprising:
- sending a first service discovery request including forward information indicating that the first service discovery request has been processed by one or more network function repository nodes to a second network function repository node, the forward information including a forward indicator indicating that the first service discovery request has been forwarded before and/or a visited network function repository node list and/or a number of network function repository nodes that have been visited to serve the first service discovery request;
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- receiving a first service discovery response from the second network function repository node.
A method at a second network function repository node, comprising:
- receiving a first service discovery request including forward information indicating that the first service discovery request has been processed by one or more network function repository nodes from a first network function repository node, the forward information including a forward indicator indicating that the first service discovery request has been forwarded before and/or a visited network function repository node list and/or a number of network function repository nodes that have been visited to serve the first service discovery request;
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- sending a first service discovery response to the first network function repository node.
An apparatus at a first network function repository node, comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory coupled to the processor, said memory containing instructions executable by said processor, whereby said apparatus is operative to:
- send a first service discovery request including forward information indicating that the first service discovery request has been processed by one or more network function repository nodes to a second network function repository node, the forward information including a forward indicator indicating that the first service discovery request has been forwarded before and/or a visited network function repository node list and/or a number of network function repository nodes that have been visited to serve the first service discovery request;
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- receive a first service discovery response from the second network function repository node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.