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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arghya Mukherjee, Acton, MA (US);
Viktor Mats Emanuel Leijon, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian J. Wells, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein are techniques to facilitate providing consumer-defined workloads for a network slice of a slice provider network. In at least one example, a method may include transmitting a query to a slice provider function for topology information of an instantiated network slice in which the instantiated network slice includes slice resources provided at a plurality of network locations. The method may further include obtaining the topology information that identifies, at least in part, the plurality of network locations at which the slice resources and identifying, based at least in part on the topology information, at least one network location of the instantiated network slice at which to instantiate a consumer-defined workload, and transmitting a request to instantiate the consumer-defined workload that includes at least one location identifier of the at least one network location and a workload identifier of the consumer-defined workload to be instantiated.