公开(公告)号：US12170595B1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-17

申请号：US18333773

申请日：2023-06-13

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Deepak Majjiga ,  Kristen Sydney Young

IPC: H04L41/14 ,  H04L41/0873 ,  H04L41/40

Abstract: Systems and methods enable static analysis of Service Assurance Policies (SAPs) for conflict detection in design time and enable conflict resolution in runtime. Conflicts degrade network slice performance and can, in some cases, disable a network. According to one implementation, a network device stores, for a Service Design and Creation (SDC) function, a Unified Network Slice Assurance Template (UNSAT) with multiple SAPs for a network slice configuration. The UNSAT includes a functional block identifying a first SAP associated with a functional category of a network function, and a resource block identifying a second SAP associated with a resource category of network infrastructure. The network device performs, based on the multiple SAPs, design time conflict identification that detects when actions from the multiple SAPs that are associated with a same network function conflict with each other and provides a notification when the design time conflict identification identifies a conflict.

公开(公告)号：US11973666B1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-30

申请号：US18045649

申请日：2022-10-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Deepak Majjiga ,  Raghuram Parvataneni

IPC: G06F16/23 ,  G06F16/27 ,  H04L41/0686 ,  H04L41/5009 ,  H04L41/5019

CPC classification number: H04L41/5019 ,  H04L41/0686 ,  H04L41/5009

Abstract: In some implementations, a management system may receive service information from a plurality of service providers. A plurality of network devices, of the plurality of service providers, may be blockchain nodes of a blockchain. The service information, of a service provider, may identify network services provided by a network device of the service provider and identifies a location of the network device. The management system may receive, via the blockchain, information regarding a service-level agreement associated with a subset of service providers, of the plurality of service providers, providing network services for an application. The management system may receive, via the blockchain, an approval of the service-level agreement from each service provider of the subset of service providers. The management system may perform an action based on the service-level agreement and based on the network services provided by the subset of service providers for the application.