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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2014
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Colin I'Anson, Bristol, GB;
Marc Flauw, Les Ulis, FR;
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
There is described a method for operating a proxy in a network function virtualization (NFV) system. The NFV system comprises a virtualized network function (VNF) manager for managing a VNF, a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for managing a resource, and a NFV orchestrator. The method comprises: receiving a resource allocation request for the VIM from the VNF manager; sending the resource allocation request to a component of the VIM; receiving a response to the resource allocation request from the component of the VIM; and sending the response to the NFV orchestrator.