Patent ID: 11895216
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A network node for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
receive, from an application server, application data for transmission to a user equipment (UE) via an additional network node,
wherein the application data is received with metadata associated with the application data, and
wherein the metadata comprises one or more additional indications piggybacked with a payload of the application data;

identify, based at least in part on the metadata, one or more groupings of the application data into application data units (ADUs);
add one or more indications of the one or more groupings into the ADUs; and
provide the application data to the additional network node, the application data having the one or more indications of the groupings into the ADUs added before being provided to the additional network node,
wherein the network node comprises one or more of:
a service layer entity, or
a user plane function.