MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517075370 A) filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm, on Aug. 7, for 'methods, network nodes, media for nf discovery enhancement.'
Inventor(s) include Zhu, Qiuxiang; Yang, Yong; Li, Peng; Udalcovs, Aleksejs; and Lu, Yunjie.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods (500; 600; 700), network nodes (1000, 1100; 1200, 1300; 1200', 1300'), and computer readable storage media for NF discovery enhancement are disclosed. The method (500) performed by a first network node (1000, 1100) includes: receiving (S501), from a second network node, a first discovery request that comprises a query parameter having a plurality of values to be satisfied by NF (s) and an indication indicating a capability of receiving an aggregation of NFs of a requested target NF type and a subset of the plurality of values of the query parameter that are not satisfied by any NF of the requested target NF type that is registered in the first network node and determining (S503) that a subset of values from the plurality of values of the query parameter are not satisfied by any NF of the requested target NF type that is registered in the first network node."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 21, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/140575.
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