Patent ID: 11936752
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for generating and processing bundled notification request messages, the method comprising:
at a producer network function (NF):
receiving subscription request messages from consumer NFs via one or more service communication proxies (SCPs);
obtaining and storing, from the subscription request messages validated by the producer NF, identities of SCPs within a last N SCP hops from the producer NF, N being an integer of at least one;
detecting an event requiring notifications to a plurality of the consumer NFs;
identifying, from the SCPs within the last N SCP hops from the producer NF, a group of SCPs for which the notifications can be bundled;
generating a bundled notification request message for the group of SCPs for which the notifications can be bundled; and
transmitting the bundled notification request message to a first-hop SCP in the group of SCPs for which the notifications can be bundled.