Dynamic provisioning system for communication networks
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorMichael E. Feldpusch
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Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a virtualized communication device dynamic provisioning system includes a computer-based set of instructions that are executed to generate a user interface for receiving selection of one or more virtualized communication devices. The instructions may then receive provisioning information associated with the selected virtualized communication devices from the user interface, and provision the virtualized communication devices in accordance with the received provisioning information to prepare and equip the virtualized communication devices according to the financial transaction.
Claims17
A dynamic provisioning system comprising:
- a computing system comprising a processing system and a memory for storing instructions that are executed by the processing system to:
- generate a user interface for receiving selection of a virtualized communication device;
- facilitate a financial transaction for leasing the virtualized communication device;
- communicate with an orchestrator executed to manage operation of hardware objects and the virtualized communication device executing on the hardware objects, the orchestrator including an application program interface (API) configured to communicate with a provisioning application;
- provision the virtualized communication device to prepare and equip the virtualized communication device to be used according to the financial transaction;
- receive start time information and duration information associated with the selected virtualized communication device;
- provision the virtualized communication device at a start time identified by the received start time information and;
- de-provision the virtualized communication device at an ending time associated with the received duration information.
A dynamic provisioning method comprising:
- generating, using instructions stored on a computer-readable medium and executed by a processor, a user interface for receiving selection of a virtualized communication device;
- facilitating, using the instructions, a financial transaction for leasing the virtualized communication device;
- provisioning the virtualized communication device by communicating with an orchestrator to provision the selected virtualized communication device, the orchestrator executed to manage the operation of hardware objects and the virtualized communication device executing on the hardware objects, the orchestrator including an application program interface (API) configured to communicate with a provisioning application;
- receiving start time information and duration information associated with the selected virtualized communication device from the user interface;
- provisioning, using the instructions, the virtualized communication device at a start time identified by the received start time information to prepare and equip the virtualized communication device to be used according to the financial transaction;
- de-provisioning each of the virtualized communication device at an ending time associated with the received duration information.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor to:
- generate a user interface for receiving selection of a virtualized communication device;
- facilitate a financial transaction for leasing the virtualized communication device;
- communicate with an orchestrator executed to manage operation of hardware objects and the virtualized communication device executing on the hardware objects, the orchestrator including an application program interface (API) configured to communicate with a provisioning application;
- provision the virtualized communication device to prepare and equip the virtualized communication device to be used according to the financial transaction;
- receive a start time and a duration time associated with the selected virtualized communication device from the user interface;
- provision each of the virtualized communication device at the received start time;
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- de-provision each of the virtualized communication device at a conclusion of the received duration time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.