Patent ID: 11924315
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A policy and control function (PCF) entity in a communication system, the PCF entity comprising:
a transceiver; and
a controller coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
receive, from a session management function (SMF) entity, a first message for applying a policy and charging control (PCC) rule to a protocol data unit (PDU) session wherein the first message comprises at least one of location information of a terminal and time information of the terminal, wherein the PCC rule is related to a validation rule and wherein the validation rule includes at least one of valid location information and valid time information,
determine whether the validation rule is satisfied based on the at least one of the location information of the terminal and the time information of the terminal and the at least one of the valid location information and the valid time information,
transmit, to the SMF entity, a second message for accepting a session management policy association request as a response to the first message, in case that the validation rule is determined to be satisfied, and
transmit, to the SMF entity, a third message for rejecting the session management policy association request as a response to the first message, in case that the validation rule is determined to be unsatisfied.