US 2022/0038979 A1 · DYNAMIC CELLULAR NETWORK SELECTION FOR EDGE-COMPUTING OF AN APPLICATION

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and system disclosed herein are directed to a user equipment (UE) capable of dynamically selecting a telecommunication network for running an application using edge-computing capability of the telecommunication network. A subscriber identity module (SIM), such as an eSIM, may be provisioned for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system where each network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks meets an edge-computing requirement of the application. A workload associated with the application may be distributed among edge-computing nodes of a first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks. Upon detecting a degradation in a service associated with running the application on the first network, running of the application may be switched to a second network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks and the workload may be distributed among edge-computing nodes of the second network.

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Dependent claims

A method in a user equipment (UE) comprising:

provisioning a subscriber identity module (SIM) for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system, a network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks meeting an edge-computing requirement of an application loaded on the UE;
running the application on a first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks;
having a workload associated with the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the first network;
and
upon detecting a degradation in a service associated with running the application on the first network, running the application on a second network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks.

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A system for a user equipment (UE) comprising:

one or more processors;
a subscriber identity module (SIM) communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;
and
memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
provisioning the SIM for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system, a network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks meeting an edge-computing requirement of an application loaded on the UE,
running the application on a first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks,
having a workload associated with the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the first network,
upon detecting a degradation in a service associated with running the application on the first network, running the application on a second network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks, and
having the workload of the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the second network.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

provisioning a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE for a plurality of preferred telecommunication networks of a multi-network mobile edge computing (MEC) system, a network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks meeting an edge-computing requirement of an application loaded on the UE;
running the application on a first network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks;
having a workload of the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the first network;
upon detecting a degradation in a service associated with running the application on the first network, dynamically switching from the first network to a second network of the plurality of preferred telecommunication networks based on a dual SIM dual standby (DSDS) mode or a dual SIM dual Active (DSDA) mode;
running the application on the second network;
and
having the workload associated with the application distributed among edge-computing nodes of the second network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Dynamic cellular network selection for edge-computing of an application

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