Method and system for device location management
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsQing WEI, David PEREZ, Xueli AN
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Abstract
The embodiments of the disclosure relates to a device location manager for a communication system, the device location manager comprising: a southbound interface configured to receive a physical location information of a mobile device from an infrastructure manager of the communication system, a location processor configured to map between the physical location information and a logical location information, and a northbound interface configured to send and/or receive the logical location information to and/or from at least two network slices of the communication system.
Claims14
A device location manager for a communication system, the device location manager comprising:
- a southbound interface configured to receive physical location information of a mobile device from an infrastructure manager of the communication system;
- a location processor configured to map between the physical location information and a logical location information;
- and
- a northbound interface configured to send and/or receive the logical location information to and/or from at least two network slices of the communication system.
A communication system, comprising:
- at least two network slices operating on a common infrastructure;
- and
- a device location manager:
- a southbound interface configured to receive physical location information of a mobile device from an infrastructure manager of the communication system,
- a location processor configured to map between the physical location information and a logical location information, and
- a northbound interface configured to send and/or receive the logical location information to and/or from at least two network slices of the communication system.
A method for managing device location information in a communication system, the method comprising:
- receiving physical location information of a mobile device from an infrastructure manager of the communication system;
- mapping between the physical location information and a logical location information;
- and
- sending and/or receiving the logical location information to and/or from at least two network slices of the communication system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.