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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Ying Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);

Neda Beheshti-Zavareh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04Q 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 41/5045 (2013.01); H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); H04Q 3/0029 (2013.01); H04L 63/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for placing inline services having multiple instances in a service provider network. In one implementation, a topology of the service provider network and services to be placed therein are defined, wherein a network node may include a data forwarding functionality and a control plane functionality. Using service chaining policy requirements, the number of service instances, etc. as input, services and their multiple instances are placed within the network such that an overall network metric is optimized for all subscriber data flows.


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Zhang, Ying. (2017). System and method for assigning multi-instance services in a provider network (U.S. Patent No. 9584371). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9584371

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