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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2022
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Kita, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is enabled that an element included in a communication system is appropriately scaled out. An AI () predicts, based on a performance index value before a given reference time point relating to a communication system, a network load in a prediction period from the given reference time point until a predetermined time after the given reference time point. A policy manager () determines, in response to the prediction, whether a magnitude of a predicted value of the network load in the prediction period satisfies a given condition. The policy manager (), a life cycle manager (), a container manager (), and a configuration manager () execute scale-out of an element included in the communication system when, in the determinations for two or more prediction periods which have different reference time points but at least partially overlap, a predetermined number or more of the determinations are a determination that the condition is satisfied.