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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Ronald R. Marquardt, Woodinville, WA (US);

Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);

Carl J. Persson, Olathe, KS (US);

Arun Rajagopal, Leawood, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/32 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of electronic communication via a virtual network function (NFV) implementation of a core network. The method comprises receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) content request from a user equipment (UE), wherein the HTTP content request comprises an identification of a content source and determining by an orchestrator service that insufficient NFV processing capacity is available to perform the HTTP content request, where the orchestrator service is an application that executes on a first physical host. The method further comprises dynamically increasing the NFV processing capacity by the orchestrator service, performing the HTTP content request using the increased NFV processing capacity, and returning a HTTP content response to the UE, wherein the HTTP content response does not comprise identification of the content source.


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