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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2022
Applicants:
Siamak Azadiabad, Montreal, CA;
Maria Toeroe, Montreal, CA;
Ferhat Khen-dek, Montreal, CA;
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5054 (2022.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); H04L 41/0895 (2022.05); H04L 41/40 (2022.05);
Abstract
There is provided a method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable media for designing and deploying a network service (NS) meeting availability requirements. The method comprises computing availabilities and failure rates of virtual network functions (VNFs) instances available for deploying the NS. The method comprises designing the NS by defining redundancy and placement of constituents of VNFs instances, using the computed availabilities and failure rates of the VNFs instances. The method comprises deploying the NS.