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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:
Oct. 26, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2019
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Fabio Aiello, Rome, IT;

Gary Dean Iosbaker, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); H04L 41/069 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 41/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method are provided for instantiating a blockchain in a telecommunications network. The method includes identifying a smart contract having S transactions; encoding the S transactions into a sub-blockchain; selecting K edge gate nodes of the telecommunications network from among N of the edge gate nodes according to an ant colony system algorithm, wherein each of the edge gate nodes operates at an edge of the telecommunications network, and wherein S≤K; and allocating the sub-blockchain as one or more virtual network functions among the K edge gate nodes.


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