US 12,592,854 B2 · Bundling services provided by edge application servers

Abstract

An example client device for accessing data from a plurality of edge application servers (EASs) includes one or more processors configured to receive data representing a bundle identifier (ID) for a bundle of EASs from an application service provider (ASP); send a request including the bundle ID to an edge configuration server (ECS); in response to the request, receive information representing the EASs in the bundle from the ECS; in response to the information representing each of the EASs, send one or more EAS discovery requests to one or more edge enabler servers (EESs); in response to the one or more EAS discovery requests, receive information for communicating with one or more of the EASs from the one or more EESs; and initiate the application data traffic session between the AC of the UE device and the one or more of the EASs in the bundle of EASs.

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Dependent claims

A method of accessing data from a plurality of edge application servers (EASs), the method comprising:

receiving, by an edge enabler client (EEC) of a user equipment (UE) device, data representing a bundle identifier (ID) for a bundle of EASs from an application service provider (ASP);
sending, by the EEC, a service provisioning request including the bundle ID to an edge configuration server (ECS);
in response to the service provisioning request, receiving, by the EEC, information representing each of the EASs in the bundle of EASs from the ECS;
in response to the information representing each of the EASs, sending, by the EEC, one or more EAS discovery requests to one or more edge enabler servers (EESs);
in response to the one or more EAS discovery requests, receiving, by the EEC, information for communicating with one or more of the EASs in the bundle of EASs from the one or more EESs;
and
initiating, by the EEC, an application data traffic session between an application client (AC) of the UE device and the one or more of the EASs in the bundle of EASs.

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A user equipment (UE) device for accessing data from a plurality of edge application servers (EASs), the UE device comprising:

a memory configured to store application data exchanged via an application data traffic session between an application client (AC) of the UE device;
and
an edge enabler client (EEC) comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the EEC being configured to:
receive data representing a bundle identifier (ID) for a bundle of EASs from an application service provider (ASP);
send a service provisioning request including the bundle ID to an edge configuration server (ECS);
in response to the service provisioning request, receive information representing each of the EASs in the bundle of EASs from the ECS;
in response to the information representing each of the EASs, send one or more EAS discovery requests to one or more edge enabler servers (EESs);
in response to the one or more EAS discovery requests, receive information for communicating with one or more of the EASs in the bundle of EASs from the one or more EESs;
and
initiate the application data traffic session between the AC of the UE device and the one or more of the EASs in the bundle of EASs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Bundling services provided by edge application servers

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