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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Takano, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Kasai, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Teraoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuki Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomonori Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a communication device that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device including a communication unit that executes communication with another node and a control unit that controls communication executed by the communication unit. The control unit operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.