US 11,811,863 B2
Method and apparatus for providing network analytics in a wireless communication system
Mehrdad Shariat, Staines (GB)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/817,952.
Claims priority of application No. 2116034 (GB), filed on Nov. 8, 2021; and application No. 2206067 (GB), filed on Apr. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0142427 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 67/1034 (2022.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 67/1034 (2013.01) [H04L 41/40 (2022.05); H04W 24/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a first network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a NWDAF service consumer, a first request for first analytics information, the first request including first time information on a first time duration when the first analytics information is needed for the NWDAF service consumer;
transmitting, to a second NWDAF, a second request for second analytics information, the second request including second time information on a second time duration when the second analytics information is needed for the first NWDAF;
receiving, from the second NWDAF, a second response including the second analytics information; and
transmitting, to the NWDAF service consumer, a first response including the first analytics information generated based on second analytics information received from the second NWDAF,
wherein the first NWDAF is an aggregator NWDAF, and
wherein the second time duration expires before the first time duration.