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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:
Dec. 12, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Allwyn Sequeira, Saratoga, CA (US);

Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Debashis Basak, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01); H04L 69/324 (2022.01); H04L 69/325 (2022.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01); H04L 41/5054 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01); H04L 69/325 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method of provisioning a network service in a cloud computing system includes: defining, at an orchestrator, the network service to include a plurality of network functions; defining, at the orchestrator, network connectivity among the plurality of network functions; identifying a plurality of vendor device managers (VDMs) configured to provision virtual network functions that implement the plurality of network functions; and instructing, by the orchestrator, the VDMs to deploy the virtual network functions having the defined network connectivity.


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