Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Geographical redundancy and dynamic scaling for virtual network functions
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Application No.: US15657518Application Date: 2017-07-24
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Publication No.: US11003516B2Publication Date: 2021-05-11
- Inventor: Chaoxin Qiu , Robert F. Dailey , Mark A. Ratcliffe , Jeffrey L. Scruggs
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: BakerHostetler
- Main IPC: G06F9/54
- IPC: G06F9/54 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L12/00

Abstract:
When a virtualized service platform encounters a catastrophic fault, an orchestrator may instantiate new virtual machines instances to deploy additional capacity in other cloud locations to handle failover storms. After the network fault is fixed and service returns to normal condition, these additional VM instances may be removed from the platform and cloud resources may be released. The system may minimize the resource over-provisioning and may continue to support geographical redundancy or dynamic scaling in a large-scale service network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190026168A1 Geographical Redundancy and Dynamic Scaling for Virtual Network Functions Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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