Patent ID: 11895033
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 21:
22. A system comprising:
at least one processor;
at least one machine readable memory storing machine readable instructions, which when executed by the at least one processors, implements an application function (AF) and a policy control function (PCF);
wherein the AF is configured to:
send to the PCF a request indicating that a common application location is to be selected or reselected from at least one application location included in the request, wherein the request further comprises information to identify traffic;
the PCF is configured to:
generate rules for multiple sessions associated with the traffic based on the request, wherein the rules indicate that the common application location is to be selected or reselected from the at least one application location included in the rules; and
send the rules to a session management function (SMF) for a selection or reselection of the common application location from the at least one application location during a selection or reselection of user plane (UP) paths for the multiple sessions, wherein the UP paths include the common application location and one or more user plane functions (UPFs), the common application location being different from the one or more UPFs.