Patent ID: 11864091
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for discovering services in a telecommunication network provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving, by a Network Repository Function, NRF, comprised by said telecommunication network, a discovery request, from a Network function, NF, consumer, for discovering an NF producer to interact with, wherein said discovery request comprises a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number, MSISDN, associated with said NF consumer;
transmitting, by said NRF, to an address translate server, an address translate query, wherein said address translate query comprises said MSISDN;
receiving, by said NRF, an address translate response, wherein said address translate response comprises a Universal Resource Identifier, URI;
searching, by said NRF, using said URI, an address of an NF producer instance for interaction with said NF consumer that can serve the discovery request within its own Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN; and
transmitting, by said NRF, to said NF consumer, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises said address of said NF producer instance.