Patent ID: 11895216
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a network node, comprising:
receiving, from an application server, application data for transmission to a user equipment (UE) via an additional network node,
wherein receiving the application data comprises receiving metadata associated with the application data, and
wherein the metadata comprises one or more additional indications piggybacked with a payload of the application data;

identifying, based at least in part on the metadata, one or more groupings of the application data into application data units (ADUs);
adding one or more indications of the one or more groupings into the ADUs; and
providing the application data to the additional network node, the application data having the one or more indications of the groupings into the ADUs added, by the network node, before being provided to the additional network node,
wherein the network node comprises one or more of:
a service layer entity, or
a user plane function.