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公开(公告)号：US11303501B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-12
申请号：US16509959
申请日：2019-07-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: H04L12/24 , H04W72/04 , H04W28/08 , H04W28/16 , H04W28/18 , H04W28/12 , H04W24/02 , H04L41/046 , H04L41/0813
Abstract: Embodiments of a Network Manager (NM), a (NFVO), and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The NM may transfer, to the NFVO, an update NS request message to update the NS instance based on the new NSD. The NM may encode the update NS request message to include: an nsInstanceID parameter that identifies the NS instance, and an updateType parameter that indicates a type of update for the NS instance. One value of “AssocPnfWithPnfProfile” for the updateType parameter may indicate a request to associate the PNF of the NS instance with a new or updated PNF profile indicated by the new NSD. Another value of “AssocVnfWithVnfProfile” for the updateType parameter may indicate a request to associate the VNF of the NS instance with a new or updated VNF profile indicated by the new NSD.
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公开(公告)号：US11243798B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-08
申请号：US16499847
申请日：2018-04-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou
Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatuses related to network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) performance. An apparatus may receive performance data from a network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) associated with one or more virtualized resources (VRs) of the NFVI. The apparatus may determine a collection method based on the received performance data. The apparatus may determine a performance measurement associated with the collection method. The apparatus may perform the performance measurement using the received performance data and the collection method. The apparatus may generate one or more outputs based on the performance measurement. The apparatus may cause to send the one or more outputs to a VNF manager (VNFM).
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43.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11190423B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-30
申请号：US16126162
申请日：2018-09-10
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Abstract: An apparatus of a Virtualized Network Function Manager (VNFM) comprises one or more processors to receive one or more performance measurements related to a virtual network interface that are collected for a virtual compute instance from a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) in a collection interval, to map a measured object of the one or more performance measurements from the virtual compute instance to a Virtual Network Function (VNF) and/or VNF component (VNFC) instance, and to map the virtual network interface to a connection point (CP) associated with the VNF or VNFC instance, to generate one or more performance measurements related the CP for the VNF or VNFC instance. The one or more performance measurements related the CP for the VNF or VNFC instance are to be reported to an Element Manager (EM) or to a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO), or a combination thereof.
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公开(公告)号：US11140625B2
公开(公告)日：2021-10-05
申请号：US16733831
申请日：2020-01-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou
IPC: H04B7/00 , H04W52/02 , H04W24/02 , H04L12/917 , H04L12/911 , H04L12/24 , H04L29/06 , H04L29/08 , H04W52/24 , H04B17/345 , H04W24/06 , H04W24/08 , H04W16/24 , H04W36/00 , H04W36/38 , H04W16/18 , H04W36/08 , H04B1/10 , H04B7/024
Abstract: Embodiments of systems and techniques are described for determining inter-radio access technology (inter-RAT) coverage for energy saving management (ESM). In some embodiments, a network management (NM) apparatus may determine that a source cell of a network of a first RAT is triggered to activate an energy saving state and that the source cell is partially overlapped by each of a plurality of cells of one or more networks of one or more RATs different from the first RAT. The NM apparatus may instruct the source cell to activate the energy saving state when a combination of the plurality of cells provides coverage of the source cell. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US20210288879A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-16
申请号：US16499044
申请日：2018-04-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) abstracts network functions, allowing them to be installed, controlled, and manipulated by software running on standardized compute nodes such as cloud computing platform rather than on dedicated hardware. In a 5G mobile communications network, the base station or gNB may be split into virtualized and non-virtualized network functions (NFs). Described herein are systems and methods for managing such gNBs within the NFV framework.
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公开(公告)号：US20210281473A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-09
申请号：US17207645
申请日：2021-03-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured.
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公开(公告)号：US11025515B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-01
申请号：US15764469
申请日：2015-12-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou , Valerie Parker
Abstract: Devices and methods of providing performance measurements (PMs) for Network Function Virtualization are generally described. A Virtual Network Function (VNF) PM job is scheduled at a VNF and VNF PM data received in response. From the VNF PM data, it is determined that virtualized resource (VR) management may be a cause of poor VNF performance. A VR PM job is scheduled and results in VR PM data. The VR PM and VNF PM data are analyzed to determine whether to increase the VR at the VNF. If an increase is determined, a request for the increase is transmitted from an element manager to a VNF manager or the VNF PM and/or VR PM data are provided to a Network Manager (NM) for the NM to request the increase by a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO).
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公开(公告)号：US11012883B2
公开(公告)日：2021-05-18
申请号：US16465453
申请日：2017-12-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: An element manager (EM) of a virtualized network for a wireless communication system processes a suspend measurement job request received from a network manager (NM). The request is to suspend a measurement job to provide network function (NF) performance measurements related to a virtualized resource (VR). In response to the suspend measurement job request, the EM stops reports reporting measurement result data for the measurement job and determines whether to instruct a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) to delete one or more performance management (PM) jobs used to support the measurement job. The EM then generates a suspend measurement job response to indicate to the NM a result of the request to suspend the measurement job.
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公开(公告)号：US10949315B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-16
申请号：US16464840
申请日：2018-06-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Techniques for generating and communicating performance measurements related to virtualized resources (VRs) are discussed. A first set of embodiments discusses relate to generating and communicating 3GPP NF performance measurements related to VR. A second set of embodiments relate to generating and communication VR-related performance measurements over specific reference points (e.g., Ve-Vnfm-em, Or-Vnfm, Or-Vi, Os-Ma-nfvo, etc.) of a management architecture for network function virtualization (NFV).
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50.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10901852B2
公开(公告)日：2021-01-26
申请号：US15767203
申请日：2016-05-18
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Joey Chou , Stephen Gooch , Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde
Abstract: Techniques for identifying and remedying performance issues of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) are discussed. An example system includes processor(s) configured to: process VNF Performance Measurement (PM) data received from a network Element Manager (EM) for a VNF; determine whether the VNF has a negative performance issue based on the VNF PM data; request that the EM create a Virtualization Resource (VR) PM job associated with a VR of the VNF when the VNF has the negative performance issue; process VR PM data received from the EM; determine whether to restart the VNF based on the VR PM data and the VNF PM data; and request a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) to restart the VNF based on a determination to restart the VR.
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