Patent ID: 9730101
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method, in a communications network, for providing a service associated to a service request received from a mobile user equipment (UE), the communications network comprising a plurality of service nodes and a gateway node, wherein the gateway node performs the following steps: forwarding the service request received from the UE to a domain name server, wherein the service request comprises a domain name system (DNS) request to be resolved by the domain name server; receiving DNS response message from a selection server, said DNS response message comprising a list of one or more of the plurality of service nodes; contacting a policy server to request a service node selection policy, the request comprising the mobility information associated with the UE; receiving a policy response message from the policy server comprising service node information indicative of usability of the one or more of the plurality of service nodes; and selecting or initiating selecting a service node from the one or more service nodes in dependency of the service node information for providing the service associated with the service request.