Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deploying network functions in a communication network based on geo-social network data
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Application No.: US16353777Application Date: 2019-03-14
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Publication No.: US10939308B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Om Prakash Suthar , Arghya Mukherjee , Amarnath Sury Arvind , Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; G06F15/16 ; H04W24/02 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W64/00

Abstract:
A network device such as a network function (NF) entity or an application function (AF) entity in a communication network monitors network traffic for a plurality of peer-to-peer transactions associated with an application, where each peer-to-peer transaction includes communications between a user and a peer in the communication network. The network device also determines a set of geographic locations corresponding to one or more peer endpoints for the plurality of peer-to-peer transactions based on the network traffic, and determines an optimal midpoint between the set of geographic locations. The network device further deploys an edge node in the communication network to serve a subsequent peer-to-peer transaction for the application based on the optimal midpoint.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200296603A1 DEPLOYING NETWORK FUNCTIONS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK BASED ON GEO-SOCIAL NETWORK DATA Public/Granted day:2020-09-17
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