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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2016
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Linda Dunbar, Plano, TX (US);
Hong Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method implemented in a network engine comprising receiving, by a service function (SF) orchestrator in the network engine, a registration request message from a third-party SF manager requesting registration of a SF comprising one or more SF instances in a network, wherein the registration request message comprises vendor identification information identifying a vendor of the SF and SF identification information identifying the SF, receiving a capability information message from the third-party SF manager indicating vendor-specific capability information associated with the SF, receiving a service request message from a service client requesting a network service and one or more policies for the service, generating the network service by utilizing the one or more SF instances according to the one or more policies and the vendor-specific capability information, and sending the one or more policies to the one or more SF instances.