Patent ID: 11963036
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a radio access network (RAN) centralized unit (CU) control plane (CU-CP) of a RAN, the one or more processors to configure the RAN CU-CP to, when the instructions are executed:
decode, from a user equipment (UE), a compute message, the compute message comprising an indication of a compute task to be offloaded to the RAN and data of the compute task;
in response to reception of the compute message, determine a CU user plane (CU-UP) and RAN computing service function (RAN Comp SF) associated with the CU-UP for computation of the compute task:
encode, for transmission to the RAN Comp SF, the data via an interface that is dependent on whether the RAN Comp SF is collocated with the RAN CU-UP;
decode, from the RAN Comp SF, results of the compute task; and
encode, for transmission to the UE, a compute message response that provides the results of the compute task.