Patent ID: 11902104
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus configured to provide functions in a new radio (NR) network, the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
provide data plane functions (DPFs), the DPFs configured to serve as a shared database for control functions, user functions and management functions for data plane resources in the NR network; and
interact with other functions of the NR network via a service interface, the other functions comprising control plane functions (CPF), user plane functions (UPF), management plane functions (MPF), compute plane functions (COMPF), network exposure functions (NEF) and application functions (AF); and

a memory configured to store data to be provided to the other functions,
wherein the DPFs are configured to:
provide a unified metadata format across network services and devices,
provide data sharing among communication and computation services, and across security domains,
assist message exchange between communication and computation services, including inter-process communication for distributed computing,
provide data coherence and conflict resolution maintenance,
provide data integrity on at least user equipment (UE)-uploaded data,
provide NEF interaction for network data exposure,
provide data management functions including lifecycle management, access management, data clarification and identification, and data valuation management, and
provide data management of different types of data that include private, public, restricted access, domain-specific, model generated, and measurement.