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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2022
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Richard T. Kwapniewski, Middletown, NJ (US);
Prashant Raghuvanshi, Parker, CO (US);
Rajil Malhotra, Olathe, KS (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a set of network functions operative on a core network of a mobile communications system instantiated on a cloud network, identifying functional dependencies among respective network functions of the set of network functions, defining a sequence by which the set of network functions should be made unavailable prior to a maintenance event, wherein the defining the sequence is based on the functional dependencies, and deactivating respective network functions of the set of network functions according to the sequence. Other embodiments are disclosed.