Application integrated gateway

摘要

In one embodiment, a network application may offload stateful operations to a user-plane application. In one embodiment, the network application receives state information for a user device. The network application then sends the state information to a user-plane application, which can maintain the state information. The network application may then offload a stateful operation to the user-plane application. For example, the network application may have the user-plane application perform stateful operations. Also, the network application may use the state information maintained at the user-plane application for error recovery after the network application fails. For example, the network application may recover the state information from the user-plane application after failure.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving communications from a user device on a first network to initiate a session with a second network; receiving, from a network device on the second network, state information for the user device associated with the session, wherein the state information comprises service route information and identification information for the user device, and wherein the state information is received in the first network on a gateway that includes a user plane application, which is configured to maintain the state information for the session including having the service route information associated with the user device identification information; communicating with the network device through a network interface, wherein the network device includes a network application to be used in conjunction with the session; receiving, on the gateway, a service route request from the network device to recover the service route information associated with the user device identification information, wherein the request is triggered when the network application attempts to re-initialize after a failure associated with the network application; and communicating the service route information associated with the user device identification information from the gateway to the network application, wherein the network application is configured to continue the session for the user device by using the service route information and without needing to establish a new session for the user device.