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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:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2015
Applicants:

Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;

Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;

Imec Vzw, Leuven, BE;

Universiteit Gent, Ghent, BE;

Inventors:

Rudolf Strijkers, Zurich, CH;

Shuang Zhang, Delft, NL;

Jeroen Famaey, Zwijndrecht, BE;

Niels Bouten, Sint-Eloois-Vijve, BE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5005 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 41/509 (2013.01); H04L 41/5051 (2013.01); H04L 41/5096 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for controlling on-demand service provisioning in a network, wherein the network comprises resources for providing a service. In the method, a service request is intercepted. At least one network function, indicated as a first network function, required for the service associated with the service request is determined. Then, the first network function is instantiated on a resource in the network for executing the service in the network.


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