Patent ID: 11923994
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for common charging of network connectivity and cloud resource utilization for a user equipment (UE), wherein the method being performed in a packet core system and the packet core system comprising a packet gateway, the method comprising:
receiving, from the UE, an attach request message; and
sending, to the UE, one or more service definitions of common network connectivity and cloud service classes, as a consequence to said receiving of the attach request message;
wherein the method further comprises the packet gateway to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from the UE, a request for a network connectivity and cloud resource service, wherein a requested service is class-based, and wherein said request comprises one of said common network connectivity and cloud service classes;
translating the common network connectivity and cloud service class of the requested service into a first network connectivity class and a second cloud service class;
sending, to a cloud node, a request for a cloud service, said request comprising the second cloud service class;
receiving, from the cloud node, a charging event for cloud resources utilized according to the second cloud service class;
merging the received charging event for cloud resources with a charging event of network connectivity according to the first network connectivity class, forming a merged charging event; and
sending, to a charging node, the merged charging event for common charging of network connectivity and cloud resource utilization, according to the requested common network connectivity and cloud service class.