Communication configuration for personal iot network
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorChing-yu Liao
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Abstract
A method implemented in a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: serving a personal internet-of-things (IoT) network (PIN) element (PINE) associated with a PIN, to provide a direct connection between the PINE and the UE operating as a PINE with gateway capability (PEGC); receiving, at the UE via a core network (CN), an Internet Protocol (IP) packet; routing the IP packet to the PINE in view of a header of the IP packet.
Claims15
A method implemented in a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- serving a personal internet-of-things (IoT) network (PIN) element (PINE) associated with a PIN, to provide a direct connection between the PINE and the UE operating as a PINE with gateway capability (PEGC);
- receiving, at the ULE via a core network (CN), an Internet Protocol (IP) packet;
- and
- routing the IP packet to the PINE in view of a header of the IP packet.
The method of claim of 1 or 2, further comprising:
- retrieving, from the header, an interface ID of the PINE;
- and
- determining a mapping between the interface ID and a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the PINE;
- wherein
- the routing of the IP packet is based on the MAC address of the PINE.
A user equipment (UE), comprising a transceiver and processing hardware, the UE configured to implement a method of any of the preceding claims.
A method implemented in a network function (NF) of a core network (CN), the method comprising:
- receiving, at the NF, a personal internet-of-things (IoT) network (PIN) communication configuration including (i) an identifier of a PIN, (ii) a UE ID to identify a user equipment (UE) operating as a PIN element (PINE) with gateway capability (PEGC) and associated with the PIN, and (iii) a PINE ID to identify the PINE within a PIN subgroup of the PEGC;
- and
- configuring the CN for routing IP packets addressed to the PINE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.