Patent ID: 11950178
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for optimized routing of service based interface (SBI) request messages to remote network function (NF) repository functions (NRFs) using indirect communications via a service communication proxy (SCP), the method comprising:
at an SCP including at least one processor:
receiving an SBI request message, wherein receiving an SBI request message includes receiving an SBI request message associated with an existing subscription with the remote NRF;
forwarding the SBI request message to a remote NRF;
determining that the remote NRF is unable to process the SBI request message;
in response to determining that the remote NRF is unable to process the SBI request message, identifying a georedundant mate of the remote NRF; and
forwarding the SBI request message to the georedundant mate NRF of the remote NRF that is unable to process the SBI request message.