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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2022
Infinera Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Prashaanth Ragupathy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yatindra Chugh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramanujan Puranam, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhumita Pal, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are network elements for use in a transport network. The network elements may comprise an embedded device and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory storing a container runtime that when executed causes the processor to initialize a runtime base layer, initialize a plurality of containers, and provide, to each of the containers, access to at least one common resource. The runtime base layer may comprise an operating system and one or more common resource. The embedded device may have one or more property affecting a function of the embedded device and one or more status. The operating system may lack a software distribution. The common resources may be based on a common requirement of at least two of the applications. Each of the containers may comprise a particular one of the applications and one or more unique resource based on a unique requirement of the particular one of the applications.