User equipment (UE) service over a network exposure function (NEF) in a wireless communication network
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorsMarouane Balmakhtar, Lyle T. Bertz, Robert Keith Butler, Mark Richard Bales
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Abstract
A data communication system authenticates a User Equipment (UE). The data communication system exposes the authenticated UE to a user data system over a Network Exposure Function (NEF) in response to the authentication. The data communication system receives, from the user data system, a request for user data from the authenticated UE over the NEF in response to the exposure. The data communication system receives the user data from the authenticated UE via the NEF. The NEF transfers the user data from the data communication system for delivery to the user data system in response to the request.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a Network Exposure Function (NEF), a request transferred by an Application Server (AS) over an Application Function (AF) for user data from a user communication device associated with the AS in response to exposing, by the NEF, an authentication indication for the user communication device to the AS over the AF;
- receiving, by a network function, the user data from the user communication device;
- transferring, by the network function, the user data to the NEF;
- transferring, by the NEF, the user data to the AF for delivery to the AS;
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- transferring, by the AF, the user data to the AS.
A method comprising:
- authenticating, by an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a User Equipment (UE);
- transferring, by the AMF, an authentication indication for the authenticated UE to a Network Exposure Function (NEF);
- exposing, by the NEF, the authentication indication for the authenticated UE to an Application Function (AF) for delivery to an Application Server (AS) associated with the authenticated UE in response to the authentication;
- transferring, by the AF, the authentication indication to the AS;
- receiving, by the NEF, a request transferred by the AS over the AF for user data from the authenticated UE in response to the exposure;
- receiving, by the NEF, the user data from the authenticated UE;
- transferring, by the NEF, the user data to the AF for delivery to the AS in response to the request;
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- transferring, by the AF, the user data to the AS.
A data communication system comprising:
- Network Exposure Function (NEF) circuitry configured to expose an authentication indication for a user communication device associated with an Application Server (AS) to the AS over Application Function (AF) circuitry and receive a request transferred by the AS over the AF for user data from the user communication device in response to the exposure;
- Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) circuitry configured to receive the user data from the user communication device;
- the AMF circuitry further configured to transfer the user data to the NEF circuitry;
- the NEF circuitry further configured to transfer the user data to the AF circuitry for delivery to the AS;
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- the AF circuitry configured to transfer the user data to the AS.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.