Nokia technologies oy (20250097114). APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Srinivas Garikipati of Bangalore IN
Mohamed Amin Nassar of Munich DE
Horst Thomas Belling of Erding DE
Apostolos Papageorgiou of Nice FR
APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250097114 titled 'APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
Original Abstract Submitted
there is provided an apparatus comprising: means for storing at least one flag in a first state at a first time, wherein the at least one flag is associated with at least one user equipment and the first state indicates that no policy association is required for the at least one user equipment; means for receiving, at a second time which is after the first time, a request from a network exposure function indicating that the at least one flag should be updated to a second state, wherein the second state indicates that a policy association is required for the at least one user equipment, wherein a purpose of the policy association is to satisfy service requirements of a service which has been or will be provisioned at the at least one user equipment; and means for, in response to receiving the request, updating the flag to the second state.