Patent ID: 11902036
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of an information-centric networking Point of Attachment (ICN-PoA) in network, the one or more processors to configure the ICN-PoA to, when the instructions are executed:
receive an ICN interest packet from a base station, the ICN interest packet comprising a prefix identifying content to be retrieved from a content holder for a user equipment (UE) and a type field indicating that the ICN interest packet is an interest packet;
modify the ICN interest packet to create a modified ICN interest packet, the modified ICN interest packet including a type of service (TS) field, the TS field indicating the identity of the UE;
determine the content is neither created nor cached inside the network;
transmit the modified ICN interest packet for transmission to an ICN gateway (ICN-GW) in response to a determination that the content is neither created nor cached inside the network;
receive, in response to transmission of the modified ICN interest packet to the ICN-GW, an ICN data packet from the ICN-GW, the ICN data packet comprising another prefix identifying the content retrieved from the content holder, another type field indicating that the ICN data packet is a data packet and the TS field;
modify the ICN data packet to remove the TS field and create a modified ICN data packet; and
transmit the modified ICN data packet for transmission to the UE.