公开(公告)号：US10117285B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-30

申请号：US14970828

申请日：2015-12-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ramesh Nadella ,  Chris F. Sefcik ,  Prasad Deviprasad ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Sreenivasa R. Pokuri ,  Raju Sharma

IPC: H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04L12/713

Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.

公开(公告)号：US20170181210A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-22

申请号：US14970828

申请日：2015-12-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ramesh Nadella ,  Chris F. Sefcik ,  Prasad Deviprasad ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Sreenivasa R. Pokuri ,  Raju Sharma

IPC: H04W76/02 ,  H04W48/16

CPC classification number: H04W76/15 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/12

Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.

公开(公告)号：US11683240B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17471364

申请日：2021-09-10

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Raghu Rami Reddy Valisammagari

IPC: H04L41/22 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/0866 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L41/0853 ,  H04L61/4541 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04L41/40 ,  H04L41/0894

CPC classification number: H04L41/22 ,  H04L41/0853 ,  H04L41/0866 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L41/0894 ,  H04L41/0895 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/40 ,  H04L61/4541

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a network tool that discovers device configurations for selected enterprise sites and automatically organizes the data to assist users, so they can build intents for network function policies in enterprise networks. An intent builder performs device discovery of network function (NF) instances in a customer network; retrieves configuration elements from the NF instances; normalizes the configuration elements; and generates a graphical user interface with rule paths based on the configuration elements. The network device receives, via the graphical user interface, user input to map source Internet protocol (IP) addresses in the rule paths to a user label and to map destination IP address in the rule paths to an application label. Based on the user input, the network device presents, via the graphical user interface, consolidated intents and generates vendor-agnostic policy rules from the consolidated intents.

公开(公告)号：US11349939B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US17176408

申请日：2021-02-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Susmitha Hymasree Pulakhandam ,  Kumara B. Tamada ,  Anuj Dutia ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04L41/084 ,  H04L67/12

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide unified policy management framework network functions in enterprise networks. The systems and methods store an abstract micro-service template configured from predefined configuration elements; receive descriptive information for a vendor-specific micro-service that corresponds to the abstract micro-service template; solicit first customer labels for at least some of the predefined configuration elements associated with a group of users for a micro-service on a customer network; solicit second customer labels for other of the predefined configuration elements associated with applications used on the customer network; generate a vendor-agnostic micro-service template using the first customer labels, the second customer labels, and the abstract micro-service template; convert, based on the descriptive information, the vendor-agnostic micro-service template into a vendor-specific micro-service template for the customer; and generate, based on the vendor-specific micro-service template, a network policy for enforcement across multiple sites of the customer network.

公开(公告)号：US20190394286A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-26

申请号：US16017592

申请日：2018-06-25

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Susmitha Hymasree Pulakhandam ,  Kumara B. Tamada ,  Anuj Dutia ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide unified policy management framework network functions in enterprise networks. The systems and methods store an abstract micro-service template configured from predefined configuration elements; receive descriptive information for a vendor-specific micro-service that corresponds to the abstract micro-service template; solicit first customer labels for at least some of the predefined configuration elements associated with a group of users for a micro-service on a customer network; solicit second customer labels for other of the predefined configuration elements associated with applications used on the customer network; generate a vendor-agnostic micro-service template using the first customer labels, the second customer labels, and the abstract micro-service template; convert, based on the descriptive information, the vendor-agnostic micro-service template into a vendor-specific micro-service template for the customer; and generate, based on the vendor-specific micro-service template, a network policy for enforcement across multiple sites of the customer network.

公开(公告)号：US20190327145A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-24

申请号：US16459416

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mahesh Chapalamadugu ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to condense a large quantity of Virtual Network Function (VNF) chains (that each correspond to a network service) into a much smaller quantity of VNF records; and extract any of the large quantity of VNF chains from the smaller quantity of network service records. This may be accomplished by assigning a Number (No.) of Services attribute and a Tier attribute into each VNF record. The No. of Services attribute and Tier attribute may enable the VNF records to reference one another such that the larger quantity of VNF chains may, in effect, be entirely represented by the much smaller quantity of VNF records, thereby conserving storage space, streamlining VNF chain management, and reducing the processing and memory capacity required to search, configure, and deploy virtual network services.

公开(公告)号：US20190058633A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-21

申请号：US15680119

申请日：2017-08-17

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mahesh Chapalamadugu ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L41/0853 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/145 ,  H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/5096

Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to condense a large quantity of Virtual Network Function (VNF) chains (that each correspond to a network service) into a much smaller quantity of VNF records; and extract any of the large quantity of VNF chains from the smaller quantity of network service records. This may be accomplished by assigning a Number (No.) of Services attribute and a Tier attribute into each VNF record. The No. of Services attribute and Tier attribute may enable the VNF records to reference one another such that the largeer quantity of VNF chains may, in effect, be entirely represented by the much smaller quantity of VNF records, thereby conserving storage space, streamlining VNF chain management, and reducing the processing and memory capacity required to search, configure, and deploy virtual network services.