Method for correlating data of terminal device and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12439328-B2
Application number	US-202318159539-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2023
Priority date	Jul 27, 2020
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

A method for correlating data of a terminal device and an apparatus are provided, to correlate data of a single terminal device by a RAN side, and further analyze the data of the terminal device. The method is: A first device obtains first data of a terminal device on a second device, where the first data includes first correlation information, the first correlation information is used to correlate the first data with second data of the terminal device on a first access network device, the second data includes the first correlation information, and there are one or more terminal devices. The first device determines a first identifier of the terminal device, and sends the first correlation information and the first identifier of the terminal device to a second access network device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for correlating data of a terminal device, comprising:
obtaining, by a first device, first data of a terminal device on a second device, wherein the first data comprises first correlation information, the first correlation information is used to correlate the first data with second data of the terminal device on a first access network device, the second data comprises the first correlation information, and there are one or more terminal devices;
determining, by the first device, a first identifier of the terminal device; and
sending, by the first device, the first correlation information and the first identifier of the terminal device to a second access network device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first correlation information comprises one or more of the following information: time information, an identifier allocated by the first access network device to the terminal device, an identifier allocated by the second device to the terminal device, an identifier of the first access network device, and an identifier of the second device.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, by the first device, a first request from the second access network device, wherein the first request is used to request the first correlation information and the first identifier of the terminal device.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first device is a data analysis network element, and the second device is an access and mobility management function network element.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the first data of the terminal device on the second device further comprises a second identifier of the terminal device; and
the determining, by the first device, a first identifier of the terminal device comprises:
determining, by the first device, the first identifier of the terminal device based on the second identifier of the terminal device.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first device is a data analysis network element, and the second device is a user plane function network element.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first device and the second device are the terminal device.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the determining, by the first device, a first identifier of the terminal device comprises:
sending, by the first device, a second request to a third device, wherein the second request is used to request the first identifier of the terminal device, and the second request comprises a second identifier of the terminal device; and
receiving, by the first device, the first identifier of the terminal device from the third device.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, by the first device, a third request from a third access network device, wherein the third request is used to request a first identifier of a target terminal device, the third request comprises second correlation information, and the second correlation information is used to correlate third data of the target terminal device on the second device with fourth data of the target terminal device on the first access network device;
determining, by the first device, the first identifier of the target terminal device based on the second correlation information; and
sending, by the first device, the first identifier of the target terminal device to the third access network device.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the second access network device, the first correlation information and the first identifier of the terminal device from the first device;
determining, by the second access network device, a model of the terminal device based on the first correlation information, wherein the model of the terminal device is used to determine a data analysis result of the terminal device; and
sending, by the second access network device, the model of the terminal device and the first identifier of the terminal device to a third access network device, wherein the first identifier of the terminal device identifies the model of the terminal device.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the determining, by the second access network device, a model of the terminal device based on the first correlation information comprises:
determining, by the second access network device based on the first correlation information and the second data of the terminal device on the first access network device, training data corresponding to the terminal device; and
determining, by the second access network device, the model of the terminal device based on the training data corresponding to the terminal device.

12. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, by the third access network device, the model of at least one terminal device and the first identifier of the at least one terminal device from the second access network device;
obtaining, by the third access network device, second correlation information, wherein the second correlation information is used to correlate third data of a target terminal device on the second device with fourth data of the target terminal device on the first access network device, and the target terminal device is one of the at least one terminal device; and
determining, by the third access network device, a data analysis result of the target terminal device based on the model of the at least one terminal device, the first identifier of the at least one terminal device, and the second correlation information.

13. A method for correlating data of a terminal device, comprising:
receiving, by a third access network device, a model of at least one terminal device and a first identifier of the at least one terminal device from a second access network device, wherein a first identifier of each terminal device of the at least one terminal device identifies a corresponding model of the terminal device, and the model of each terminal device of the at least one terminal device is used to determine a corresponding data analysis result of the terminal device;
obtaining, by the third access network device, second correlation information, wherein the second correlation information is used to correlate third data of a target terminal device on a second device with fourth data of the target terminal device on a first access network device, and the target terminal device is one of the at least one terminal device; and
determining, by the third access network device, a data analysis result of the target terminal device based on the model of the at least one terminal device, the first identifier of the at least one terminal device, and the second correlation information.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the method further comprises:
determining, by the third access network device, policy information of the target terminal device based on the data analysis result of the target terminal device; and
sending, by the third access network device, the policy information to the first access network device.

15. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the determining, by the third access network device, a data analysis result of the target terminal device based on the model of the at least one terminal device, the first identifier of the at least one terminal device, and the second correlation information comprises:
obtaining, by the third access network device, a first identifier of the target terminal device;
determining, by the third access network device based on the first identifier of the ta

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xin Yang
• Chong Weiwei
• Wu Xiaobo
• Qin Dongrun

Classifications

• H04W8/02

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• H04L43/20

  the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV · CPC title

• H04L43/08

  Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters · CPC title

• H04L41/0631

  using root cause analysis; using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis · CPC title

• H04L41/0894

  Policy-based network configuration management · CPC title