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Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2021
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Andrew Corston-Petrie, London, GB;

Ruth Brown, London, GB;

Jonathan Hart, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0823 (2022.01); H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 41/5009 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0836 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 41/5012 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method () of managing a telecommunications network (), the telecommunication network comprising a network orchestrator (), a plurality of network nodes () and a network ledger () for electronically storing data, the method comprising the steps of: the network orchestrator generating an instruction for reconfiguring at least one of the plurality of nodes (); in response to generating said instruction, requesting and retrieving first status information from the at least one of the plurality of nodes (); recording the instruction and the first status information to the network ledger ()); communicating the instruction to the at least one of the plurality of nodes thereby to effect the instructed reconfiguration (); in response to effecting the instructed reconfiguration, requesting and retrieving second status information from the at least one of the plurality of nodes; and recording said second status information in the network ledger ().


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