At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Shopify Inc.

At+t Corp.

Chen-Yui Yang

Paritosh Bajpay

David H Lu

Anthony Mark Srdar

Xidong Wu

Chaoxin Charles Qiu

Raghvendra Savoor

Monowar Hossain

Gabriel Bourge

Wen-Jui Li

Balaji R Puli

Thiru Ilango

Chee Ching

Scott Bradley Baker

Huang Lee

Zhijian Xu

Leah L Zhang

Kevin L D'Souza

Anand Kumar Singh

Fang Wu

Mark Hunt

Chang-Han Jong

Michael R Lambert

Joseph Lu

Hossein Eslambolchi

Jin Wang

John McCanuel

Carolyn Bekampis

Luis Figueroa

Xiaochuan Yi

Chuan-Chuen Chang

Daniel Zuckerman

Peter Wanda

Ken Yeh

Minghsien Wang

Quangchung Yeh

Mary-Elise Haug

Paul Kahn

Zhi Li

Michael John Zinnikas

Jackson Liu

Roberta Ann Bienfait

Neerav Mehta

Michele Macauda

Robert J Ferro

Wan-Ping Chiang

George Sultana

Joseph Battista

Hung-Kuei Ku

Chao-Chun Luo

Devendra Chaudhary

Kathleen M Clarke

Daqin Liu

Arnel R Pajarillo

Concepts and technologies are disclosed related to allocation of hardware resources for virtual network function (VNF) deployment at sites based on templates. A design template defines hardware resources to allocate for a service, and a deployment policy defines deployment of the virtual network functions (VNFs) associated with the service to the hardware resources. Hardware resources are allocated at one or more sites based on the design template to host VNFs for the service, and VNFs are deployed to the hardware resources based upon the deployment policy.

Allocating hardware resources for virtual network function deployment at sites based on templates

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a network virtualization policy management system. An event relating to a service can be detected. A first policy that defines allocation of hardware resources to host the virtual network functions can be obtained, as can a second policy that defines deployment of the virtual network functions to the hardware resources. The hardware resources can be allocated based upon the first policy and the virtual network functions can be deployed to the hardware resources based upon the second policy.

Network virtualization policy management system

Virtual machine server clusters are managed using self-healing and dynamic optimization to achieve closed-loop automation. The technique uses adaptive thresholding to develop actionable quality metrics for benchmarking and anomaly detection. Real-time analytics are used to determine the root cause of KPI violations and to locate impact areas. Self-healing and dynamic optimization rules are able to automatically correct common issues via no-touch automation in which finger-pointing between operations staff is prevalent, resulting in consolidation, flexibility and reduced deployment time.

Self-healing and dynamic optimization of VM server cluster management in multi-cloud platform

Faults are managed in a virtual machine network. Failure of operation of a virtual machine among a plurality of different types of virtual machines operating in the virtual machine network is detected. The virtual machine network operates on network elements connected by transport mechanisms. A cause of the failure of the operation of the virtual machine is determined, and recovery of the virtual machine is initiated based on the determined cause of the failure.

Methods, systems, and computer readable storage devices for managing faults in a virtual machine network

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, identifying a request from a femtocell located at a customer premises to receive a requested service of subscribed services related to a subscriber account that identifies an availability of the requested service to the femtocell. Authentication information is determined, provided by way of the femtocell and a message is provided to a server including the authentication information and an identifier of a customer premises device located at the customer premises. An authentication process to authenticate the femtocell is initiated responsive to the request, wherein the server identifies the subscriber account based on the identifier of the customer premises device, and wherein the femtocell is authenticated based on information associated with the subscriber account. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Apparatus and method of automatically provisioning a femtocell

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a network virtualization policy management system. An event relating to a service can be detected, and virtual machines and virtual network functions that provide the service can be identified. A first policy that defines allocation of hardware resources to host the virtual machines and the virtual network functions can be obtained, as can a second policy that defines deployment of the virtual machines and the virtual network functions to the hardware resources. The hardware resources can be allocated based upon the first policy and the virtual machines and the virtual network functions can be deployed to the hardware resources based upon the second policy.

A processor may determine a message type of a message of a message set and extract strings from the message based upon the message type, each string associated with a field type within the message type. The processor may write one of the strings to a string table, when not already stored in the string table, and add an offset position of the string in the string table to a column list for the field type associated with the string, when not already stored in the column list. There may be different column lists for different field types. The processor may populate an entry of a data table corresponding to the message and to the field type associated with the string with an index of the offset position within the column list, and store a compressed version of the message set including the string table, column lists, and data table.

Compressed message sets for storage efficiency

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to service orchestration to support cloud-based, multi-party video conferencing service in a virtual overlay network environment. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a video conferencing service orchestrator can receive, from a user device, a service request for the cloud-based, multi-party video conferencing service orchestrated by the video conferencing service orchestrator. In response to the service request, the video conferencing service orchestrator can provide, to the user device, virtual network layer system software and a virtual machine container for installation on the user device. The virtual network layer system software can implement a network function to provide an interface between the user device and a service controller during a video conference. A conference image particular to the type of video conference can be installed on the virtual machine container to implement the video conference for the user device.

Service orchestration to support a cloud-based, multi-party video conferencing service in a virtual overlay network environment

A method of managing lip synchronization error in a multimedia content delivery network includes identifying a video packet and an audio packet associated with the video packet and determining a synchronization offset between the audio and video packets at a first monitoring point in the network. The audio and video packets are then detected at a second monitoring point in the network and a second synchronization offset is determined. When a delta between the first synchronization offset and the second synchronization offset exceeds a threshold, lip synchronization error information may be automatically recorded and/or reported to a service provider and corrective action may be taken if potential sources of the lip synchronization error are within the domain of the service provider. The video packet may be identified by a timestamp within the packet and the audio packet may be identified by audio data within the audio packet.

Lip sync error detection and correction

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Marlboro, NJ, United States of America

Chen-Yui Yang