# US 12,120,200 B2 · Flexible data analytics processing and exposure in 5GC > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,120,200 B2 - Document ID: US12120200B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/424,663 - Filed: 2020-01-21 - Published: 2022-03-17 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2019-01-21 - Assignees: Telefonaktieabolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) - Applicants: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) - Inventors: Zhang Fu; Göran Eriksson; Dinand Roeland - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120200B2 ## CPC - G06F 9/5077: {Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455)} - H04L 41/5009: Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF] - H04L 43/14: {using software, i.e. software packages (network security related monitoring H04L63/1408)} - H04L 67/34: {involving the movement of software or configuration parameters (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416)} - H04L 67/51: Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services - H04L 67/63: Routing a service request depending on the request content or context - H04W 4/50: Service provisioning or reconfiguring - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Methods and systems for providing flexible information exposure in a Fifth Generation (5G) Core (5GC) and an Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) system are provided. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method, performed by a first network node of a 5GC for providing flexible information exposure in the 5GC and an OAM system, comprises: receiving, from a second network node, a request to register the second network node as a provider of data and/or a compute function; registering the second network node as a provider of the data and/or the compute function; storing information associating the second network node with the data and/or compute function provided by the second network node; and sending, to the second network node, a response to the request to register the second network node as a provider of data and/or a compute function. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, performed by a first network node of a Fifth Generation, 5G, Core Network, 5GC, for providing flexible information exposure in the 5GC and an Operations, Administration, and Maintenance, OAM, system, the method comprising: receiving, from a second network node, a request to register the second network node as a provider of data or a compute function; registering the second network node as a provider of the data or the compute function; storing information associating the second network node with the data or the compute function provided by the second network node; sending, to the second network node, a response to the request to register the second network node as a provider of the data or the compute function; receiving, from a data consumer, a request for information; deducing how to produce the requested information; producing the requested information; and sending, to the data consumer, an information response. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the request to register the second network node as a provider of the data or the compute function comprises a request to register the second network node as a provider of the data. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2 wherein the request comprises metadata that at least one of: identifies the data that the second network node can provide; indicates how often the second network node can provide the data; indicates a location where the data provided by the second network node is stored; indicates how long the data provided by the second network node will be stored; or indicates a schema or format for the data provided by the second network node. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the request to register the second network node as a provider of the data or the compute function comprises a request to register the second network node as a provider of the compute function. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4 wherein the request comprises metadata that at least one of: identifies the compute function that the second network node can provide; indicates the input or inputs to the compute function; indicates options or parameters that can modify operation of the compute function; indicates an output or outputs from the compute function; or identifies data operated upon by the compute function. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the first network node comprises a Network Data Analytics Function, NWDAF, a Network Exposure Function, NEF, or a Service Capability Exposure Function, SCEF. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the second network node comprises a 5GC Network Function, NF, an Application Function, AF, or a 5G OAM node or Management Function, MF. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein sending the response comprises sending an indication that the registration request was accepted or was rejected.