Patent ID: 11930471
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus of an Information Centric Networking control function (ICN-CF) operable to register a user equipment (UE) for an ICN service in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular network, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
interpret, at the ICN-CF in the 5G cellular network, ICN context information received from the UE via an Access and Mobility Management function (AMF) during a registration of the UE with the ICN service in the 5G cellular network;
assign, at the ICN-CF, an ICN point of attachment (ICN-PoA) to route ICN traffic for the UE based on the ICN context information, wherein the ICN traffic includes an ICN message; and
create, at the ICN-CF, ICN-PoA assignment information for transmission to the ICN-PoA, wherein the ICN-PoA assignment information indicates that the ICN-PoA is assigned to route the traffic for the UE, wherein the ICN-PoA assignment information is transmitted to a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) to enable the ICN message transmitted from the UE to the gNB to be routed directly from the gNB to the ICN-PoA;

and a memory interface configured to send to a memory the ICN context information.