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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Marouane Balmakhtar, Fairfax, VA (US);
Galip Murat Karabulut, Vienna, VA (US);
Lyle W. Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of instantiating a virtual network function (VNF) in a core network of a communication service provider. The method comprises receiving a request to execute a VNF by a VNF manager application executing on a computer system, where the request comprises a file name of a file in an interplanetary file system (IPFS) to be used to launch the VNF, parsing the file name by the VNF manager application to identify a plurality of content identities (CIDs) that each identify fragments of content that comprise the VNF, retrieving the plurality of fragments of content by the VNF manager application from a non-transitory memory, and launching the VNF by the VNF manager application by instantiating the fragments of content comprising instructions that implement the VNF on a computer system and configuring the instructions that implement the VNF based on the fragments of content that comprise data.