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Google patents phone feature to report how it routes app traffic to networks

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

This filing describes a method where a phone (user equipment) starts using a specific rule to decide how to send data for an app. The phone then waits for a signal from the network to report back that it is following that rule.

Why it mattersThis is a technical update to how mobile devices and cellular networks communicate about data routing, ensuring the network knows which rules the phone is applying.

In the filing’s own words

To route application traffic, a user equipment (UE) initiates ( 1930), for the application traffic, an enforcement of a UE route selection policy (URSP) rule; receives ( 1932), from a core network (CN), a reporting trigger indication corresponding to the URSP rule; and reports ( 1941), to the CN and in accordance with the reporting trigger indication, the enforcement of the URSP rule.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method for routing application traffic, the method implemented in a user equipment (UE) and comprising: initiating, for the application traffic, an enforcement of a UE route selection policy (URSP) rule; receiving, from a core network (CN), a reporting trigger indication corresponding to the URSP rule; and reporting, to the CN and in accordance with the reporting trigger indication, the enforcement of the URSP rule.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
REPORTING OF URSP RULE ENFORCEMENT AT A UE
Publication number
US20260304282A1
Application number
19478797
Filed
Apr 26, 2024
Published
Oct 1, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
22

Classified under

H04W 40/04 Electricity & electronicsH04W 60/00 Electricity & electronics
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