Samsung patents roaming rules for 5G edge computing
This patent describes a method for managing how data is routed when a phone uses a foreign network's edge computing services. It allows the home network to set specific offloading policies for roaming users to ensure efficient data transmission.
In the filing’s own words
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Specifically, disclosed is a method and apparatus for efficiently configuring and applying a policy associated with a roaming user equipment (UE) when an edge computing service is provided via a HR session or an LBO session.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a first session management function (SMF) entity of a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a policy control function (PCF) entity of the HPLMN, a first message for requesting an offloading policy for a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN), the first message including a serving network identifier of the VPLMN and information indicating that a protocol data unit (PDU) session of the VPLMN supports a home routed session breakout (HR-SBO); and receiving, from the PCF entity of the HPLMN, a second message including the offloading policy for the PDU session.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Method and apparatus for configuring offloading policy for VPLMN edge service in mobile communication system
- Patent number
- US12756994B2
- Application number
- 18397731
- Filed
- Dec 27, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 4/24 Electricity & electronicsH04W 8/20 Electricity & electronicsH04W 48/18 Electricity & electronicsH04W 84/042 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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