Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Raphael Quinet

Joerg Niemoeller

Roman Levenshteyn

Silke Holtmanns

Ioannis Fikouras

Oliver Speks

Marko Schuba

Georg Kunz

Nikolas Hermanns

Stefan Wager

Michael Meyer

Reiner Ludwig

Daniel Catrein

Axel Busboom

Martin Gerdes

Peter Woerndle

Eugen Freiter

Norbert Niebert

Rosa María Martinez Perallón

Tormond Hegdahl

Rosa María MARTÍNEZ PERALLÓN

Konrad Wrona

There is provided a method performed by a first storage provisioning node of a system for provisioning storage in the system. In response to a first request for an encrypted storage volume for an application node, transmission of a second request is initiated () towards a second storage provisioning node for an unencrypted storage volume. In response to the requested unencrypted storage volume becoming available to the first storage provisioning node, an encrypted storage volume is generated () from the unencrypted storage volume and provisioning of the encrypted storage volume is initiated () to make the encrypted storage volume available at a compute node of the system for use by the application node.

Storage provisioning

There is provided a method performed by an encryption node for provisioning storage in a system. The encryption node is associated with an application node and the application node is configured to run at least part of one or more applications. In response to an unencrypted storage volume becoming available to the encryption node from a storage provisioning node of the system, an encrypted storage volume is generated () from the unencrypted storage volume and provisioning of the encrypted storage volume is initiated () to make the encrypted storage volume available at a compute node of the system for use by the application node.

A technique for operating a system controller of a virtualized application cluster is presented. The cluster comprises one or multiple virtual machines. In a method embodiment the system controller receives, from outside the cluster, control information defining a function associated with a virtual machine. It further receives, from the virtual machine, a request message including an identifier of the virtual machine. The method also comprises determining, based on the identifier included in the request message, the function associated with the virtual machine and booting information associated with the function. The booting information is then sent in a response message to the virtual machine.

Technique for operating a system controller of a virtualized application cluster

The present invention relates to a processing entity () for providing data for a process during process run-time in a distributed processing arrangement. The processing entity comprises a provider () for providing the data for the process during the process run-time by value or by reference in dependency on a data processing criterion.

Flexible data communication

An application server () along with various other devices and method are described herein for managing a service (e.g., communication service) which is provided to a user. As described herein, the application server with the help of aspect oriented programming is capable of automatically adding functionality to an original service without directly modifying the target application code of the original service. In particular, the application server when automatically adding functionality to a certain application can automatically detect which features are still missing within the certain application, and which are already supported.

Application server and method for managing a service

A method, devices, and a computer program for synchronizing one or more software programs from a first device (D) to a second device (D) are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of creating () an application profile indicating one or more software programs on the first device (ID) and indicating one or more software program providing nodes (SN,SN) from which said one or more software programs are obtainable, providing () the application profile to a synchronization manager (SM), identifying () by the synchronization manager (SM) the one or more software programs and the one or more software program providing nodes (SN,SN) according to the application profile, requesting () by the synchronization manager (SM) the one or more software program providing nodes (SN,SN) to transfer the one or more software programs, and transferring () the one or more software programs from the one or more software program providing nodes (SN,SN) to the second device (D).

Method for software program synchronization

Methods and devices for controlling a charging of a composite service in a telecommunications network are described. The composite service comprises an invocation of a constituent service. The telecommunications network comprises a control node for controlling the composite service, a service node for providing the constituent service, and a charging system for performing the charging. The method comprises the steps of receiving from the service node a first usage report comprising charging indicators related to the invocation of the constituent service, receiving from the control node control information related to the composite service, the control information indicating that the invocation of the constituent service is associated to the invocation of the composite service, generating a further usage report by changing the charging indicators according to the control information, and sending the further usage report to the charging system to instruct the charging system to perform the charging according to the further usage report.

Controlling the charging of a composite service

A method for provision of access for a data requesting entity (IRE) to data related to a principal is disclosed, comprising the steps of (i) creating an access granting ticket comprising an access specification specifying a permission for an access to data related to the principal, said data being available at a data providing entity (IPE1), and a principal identifier representing the principal towards the data providing entity (IPE1), (ii) encrypting the access granting ticket with an encryption key of the data providing entity (IPE1), (iii) communicating to the data requesting entity (IRE) the encrypted access granting ticket accompanied by an identifier of the data providing entity (IPE1), (iv) communicating from the data requesting entity (IRE) to the data providing entity (IPE1) a request comprising the encrypted access granting ticket, (v) decrypting the encrypted access granting ticket with a decryption key of the data providing entity (IPE1) corresponding to the encryption key, (vi) providing to the data requesting entity (IRE) access to data related to the principal identifier according to the access specification.

Method for provision of access

This proxy for at least one end-to-end data flow in a network comprises an estimation unit, for estimating the current minimum data load necessary to occupy the bandwidth available to the flow in the network. The estimation unit outputs a flow's pipe capacity estimation. This proxy also comprises a comparison unit, for comparing the estimated pipe capacity with a predetermined capacity threshold, a decision unit, for deciding to proxy the end-to-end flow if the estimated pipe capacity lies above the capacity threshold, and a routing unit, for routing the flow according to the decision.

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