MUMBAI, India, Aug. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517073600 A) filed by Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc, Wilmington, U.S.A., on Aug. 1, for 'communications associated with relative importance.'

Inventor(s) include Starsinic, Michael; Foy, Xavier; Rao, Jaya; Sarathchandra, Magurawalage Chathura Madhusanka; and Methenni, Achref.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 22, under issue no. 34/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for a user plane function (UPF) determining relative protocol data unit (PDU) set importance within a quality of service (QoS) flow. A first network node (e.g., a UPF) may receive, from a second network node, a first message indicating a protocol data unit (PDU) set assignment rule associated with a quality of service (QoS) flow. The first network node may receive a first downlink PDU. The first network node may determine a PDU set value associated with the first downlink PDU based on the PDU set assignment rule and one or more of a PDU set base value or a previous PDU set value corresponding to a previous PDU. The first network node may send, to a third network node, a second message. The second message may include the first downlink PDU and an indication of the PDU set value."

The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 02, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/014256.

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