Patent ID: 11888957
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 3:
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the NF comprises a service communication proxy (SCP) or a security edge protection proxy (SEPP), receiving the SBI request includes receiving an NF service request including the preferred locality attribute, the method further comprises sending an NF discovery request including the preferred locality attribute to an, receiving an NF discovery response including a plurality of NF profiles, including the NF profile, identifying the NF profile includes identifying the NF profile with the localitySet where one of the locality attribute values that matches the preferred locality attribute in the NF service request, setting the NF profile level priority includes replacing a value of the NF profile level priority attribute in the NF profile with the priority value of the matching locality attribute value in the localitySet and the method further comprises routing the NF service request to the producer NF based on the value of the NF profile level priority attribute.