Patent ID: 11864093
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system for communicating delegated network function (NF) discovery results between service communication proxies (SCPs) and using the delegated NF discovery results for alternate service based interface (SBI) service request routing, the system comprising:
a first SCP including at least one processor for receiving, from a consumer NF instance, an SBI service request, determining, that delegated NF discovery is required, and, in response, performing delegated NF discovery on behalf of the consumer NF instance, receiving an NF discovery response including delegated NF discovery results, sending the SBI service request and including, in the SBI service request, the delegated NF discovery results; and
a second SCP for receiving the SBI service request including the delegated NF discovery results, forwarding the SBI service request towards a first producer NF instance selected by the first SCP, detecting failure of routing or processing of the SBI service request, and using the delegated NF discovery results for alternate routing of the SBI service request.