Patent ID: 11877158
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for enabling hanging lawful interception (LI) resources to be cleaned up in a network core of a fifth generation (5G) wireless network, the method being implemented by a triggering function from a plurality of triggering functions, the method comprising:
receiving a notification about a failed triggering function, the failed triggering function being one of the plurality of triggering functions implemented as network functions on the network core of the 5G wireless network;
sending, in response to the notification, an update request to a data store on the network core of the 5G wireless network, the update request including a plurality of auditing records corresponding to the plurality of triggering functions, wherein the update request comprises a request to change ownership of an auditing record corresponding to the failed triggering function;
receiving, in response to sending the update request, an indication that the triggering function has been selected as a new owner of the auditing record based at least in part on a match between a claimant attribute in the auditing record and a claimant field in the update request; and
sending, in response to receiving the indication, a request to a triggered point of interception (POI) to remove an LI resource corresponding to the failed triggering function.