Methods and apparatuses for supporting charging of a federated service
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsEmmanouil PATEROMICHELAKIS, Ishan VAISHNAVI
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Abstract
There is provided a method performed at a charging control entity of a wireless network, the method for supporting charging of a federated service, the federated service being an edge and/or cloud service offered by more than one provider, the method comprising: detecting a requirement for charging for the federated an edge service offered by more than one provider; coordinating configuration for the charging for the federated edge service; and triggering a federated service charging event based on the coordinated configuration.
Claims20
A method performed at a charging control entity of a wireless network, the method for supporting charging of a federated service, the federated service being an edge or cloud service offered by multiple providers, the method comprising:
- detecting a requirement for charging for the federated service;
- coordinating configuration for the charging for the federated service;
- and
- triggering a federated service charging event based on the coordinated configuration.
A charging control entity of a wireless network, the charging control entity arranged to provision charging of a federated service, the federated service being an edge or cloud service offered by more than one provider, the charging control entity comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the charging control entity to:
- detect a requirement for charging for the federated service offered by multiple providers;
- coordinate configuration for the charging for the federated service;
- and
- trigger a federated service charging event based on the coordinated configuration.
A network entity for wireless communication, comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the network entity to:
- detect a requirement for charging for a federated service, wherein the federated service is an edge or cloud service offered by multiple providers;
- coordinate configuration for the charging for the federated service;
- and
- trigger a federated service charging event based on the coordinated configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.