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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:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Gianmarco Bruno, Genoa, IT;

Daniele Ceccarelli, Stockholm, SE;

Francesco Lazzeri, Genoa, IT;

Jeroen Nijhof, Genoa, IT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 47/72 (2013.01);
Abstract

A path computation method for use by a control entity () of a tenant () in a multi-tenant communications network () receives a request for computation of a path in the communications network () and obtains a current virtual topology of the communications network from a shared topology store () which is shared by the tenants. The virtual topology is a topology of the communications network which is available for use by the tenant (). The virtual topology is used to service the request. The method may create the path. The path computation may be in respect of a future time interval.


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