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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. 19, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Seraphin B. Calo, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);

Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, NY (US);

Thai Franck Le, White Plains, NY (US);

Christian Makaya, Summit, NJ (US);

Erich Nahum, New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5035 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 41/065 (2013.01); H04L 41/0636 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); H04L 41/5058 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided for fault diagnostics and recovery of network service chains. The method includes identifying, by a processor, intersecting ones of components of the network service chains in a network graph indicative of a commonality therebetween. The network graph represents the components of the network service chains. The method further includes selectively repairing, by the processor, one or more of the components of at least one of the network service chains up to an entirety thereof based on a component repair sequence that maintains service continuity of the network service chains and that is determined and selectively reordered based on the commonality. The network graph includes a plurality of graphs, each (i) including one or more Virtualized Network Functions, and (ii) corresponding to a respective one of the network service chains.


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