Patent ID: 11864093
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by a processor of a computer control the computer to perform steps comprising:
receiving, at a first service communication proxy (SCP) and from a consumer network function (NF) instance, a service based interface (SBI) service request;
performing, by the first SCP, delegated NF discovery on behalf of the consumer NF instance;
receiving, by the first SCP, an NF discovery response including delegated NF discovery results;
generating and sending, by the first SCP and to a second SCP, an SBI service request and including, in the SBI service request, the delegated NF discovery results;
at the second SCP, receiving the SBI service request including the delegated NF discovery results, forwarding the SBI service request towards a producer NF instance selected by the first SCP, detecting failure of routing or processing of the SBI service request, and using the delegated NF discovery results for alternate routing of the SBI service request.