Patent ID: 11877355
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An apparatus of an access and mobility management function (AMF) configured to provide mobile terminated (MT) data transport in a communication network, the apparatus comprising:
means for processing a non-access stratum (NAS) message and a protocol data unit (PDU) session identifier (ID) from a session management function (SMF), the NAS message comprising downlink data from a function in the communication network;
means for generating an integrity protected and encrypted downlink NAS transport message comprising the PDU session ID and the NAS message from the SMF; and
means for forwarding the downlink NAS transport message to an access node for delivery to a user equipment (UE) associated with the PDU session ID, wherein the PDU session is of an unstructured type, reliable data service (RDS) is enabled, and wherein the downlink NAS transport message includes an indication that RDS acknowledgement is requested.