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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a policy control function (PCF) from an application function (AF), 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;
according to the request, generating, by the PCF, rules for multiple packet data unit (PDU) sessions associated with the traffic, 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;
sending, by the PCF, 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 PDU 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.