Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

David Robert Lenrow

Vinod Kumar Choyi

Kalyani Bogineni

Deepa Jagannatha

Yousif Targali

Myron Eugene Bagwell

Michael A Gallagher

Jeffrey Melrose

Disclosed are embodiments for injecting sidecar proxy capabilities into non-sidecar applications, allowing such non-sidecar applications to communicate with a service mesh architecture. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request to instantiate a proxy for a non-sidecar application at a service mesh gateway (SMG). The SMG then instantiates the proxy in response to the request and broadcasts network information of the non-sidecar application to a mesh controller deployed in a containerized environment. Finally, the SMG (via the proxy) transmits data over a control plane that is communicatively coupled to the mesh controller.

Sidecar proxy as a service

Systems and methods described herein enforce access controls for network slices via proxy in a secure enclave of a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device executes, in a rich execution environment (REE), a function or application designated for using one or more secure network slices of a telecommunications network. The UE device executes, in a trusted execution environment (TEE), a slice admission control proxy (SACP) to perform admission control for the one or more secure network slices, and forces network traffic for the function or application through the SACP.

Provider proxy for controlling network slice access by user equipment

A system described herein may provide a technique for providing extended container capabilities via helper functions that are executed by an entity with a higher privilege level than that of the containerized process. In order to limit the opportunity for malicious or otherwise unauthorized use of such extended container capabilities, such helper functions may limit enabled arguments and/or otherwise limit utilization of functionality associated with a higher privilege level.

Pinhole access for elevated containerized process capability

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David Robert Lenrow