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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2020
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Haitao Tang, Espoo, FI;
Anatoly Andrianov, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Olaf Pollakowski, Berlin, DE;
Dario Bega, Munich, DE;
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An apparatus for use by a communication network element or function configured to act as a management controller in a communication network, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to conduct a creation and activation of at least one data source function instance for configuring a data source being not standardized for usage in the communication network to provide data to a data consumer formed by a communication network element or function in a data format allowing the data consumer to process the data, wherein the creation and activation comprises associating the data source function instance to meta data describing either a non-communication network standardized data type or a proprietary data type using attributes defined to the respective data type, and associating the data source function instance to context data describing a generation time of data to be provided to the data consumer and a scope of data to be provided to the data consumer including a relation to a part of the communication network.