US 11,444,833 B1 · Business policy management for self-driving network

Abstract

A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units configured to receive an indication of a stateful intent, the data structure including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices. The one or more processing units are configured to determine, using an abstract function configured at a node of the plurality of nodes, a stateless intent for implementing the stateful intent and generate low level configuration data for the plurality of network devices based on the stateless intent. The one or more processing units are configured to interface with one or more of the plurality of network devices to configure the one or more of the plurality of network devices with the low level configuration data.

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Dependent claims

A method for providing business intent assurance for a self-driving network, the method comprising:

configuring, by a controller device, one or more network devices of a plurality of network devices using first configuration data associated with a stateless intent;
collecting, by the controller device, metric information for the plurality of network devices after configuring the one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices with the first configuration data;
determining, by the controller device, that the stateless intent is not satisfied based on the metric information;
in response to determining that the stateless intent is not satisfied, generating second configuration data for the plurality of network devices using a data structure comprising a plurality of edges and a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices and the plurality of edges defining relationships between the plurality of nodes;
and
configuring, by the controller device, the one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices with the second configuration data.

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A controller device that manages a plurality of network devices, the controller device comprising one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to:

configure one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices using first configuration data associated with a stateless intent;
collect metric information for the plurality of network devices after the configuration of the one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices with the first configuration data;
determine that the stateless intent is not satisfied based on the metric information;
in response to a determination that the stateless intent is not satisfied, generate second configuration data for the plurality of network devices using a data structure comprising a plurality of edges and a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices and the plurality of edges defining relationships between the plurality of nodes;
and
configure the one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices with the second configuration data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Business policy management for self-driving network

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