Patent ID: 11864091
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A Network Repository Function, NRF, arranged for discovering services in a telecommunication network provided by a network function, NF, in a Service Based Architecture, SBA, based telecommunication network, wherein said NRF comprises:
receive equipment arranged for receiving a discovery request, from a Network function, NF, consumer, for discovering an NF producer to interact with, wherein said discovery request comprises a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number, MSISDN, associated with said NF consumer;
transmit equipment arranged for transmitting, to an address translate server, an address translate query, wherein said address translate query comprises said MSISDN;
wherein said receive equipment is further arranged for receiving an address translate response, wherein said address translate response comprises a Universal Resource Identifier, URI, and
searching, by said NRF, using said URI, an address of an NF producer instance for interaction with said NF consumer that can serve the discovery request within its own Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN; and
wherein said transmit equipment is further arranged for transmitting, to said NF consumer, a discovery response, wherein said discovery response comprises said address of said NF producer instance.