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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:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Allwyn M. Sequeira, Saratoga, CA (US);

Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Debashis Basak, Saratoga, CA (US);

Akshatha Sathyanarayan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of deploying a network service (NS) across multiple data centers includes identifying virtual network functions (VNFs) associated with the NS in response to a request for or relating to the NS, generating commands to deploy VNFs based on VNF descriptors, and issuing the commands to the data centers to deploy VNFs. The data centers each have a cloud management server in which cloud computing management software is run to provision virtual infrastructure resources thereof for a plurality of tenants. The cloud computing management software of a first data center is different from the cloud computing management software of a second data center, and the commands issued to the first and second data centers are each a generic command that is not in a command format of the cloud computing management software of either the first data center or the second data center.


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