US 11,456,893 B1Granted

VNF slice portability

AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.

InventorsLyle W. Paczkowski, William M. Parsel

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Abstract

A method of configuring a computing service on a virtual network with a multi-segment filename. The method comprises requesting an encrypted file by an application executing on a computer by providing a hash filename extracted from a multi-segment filename, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each of the segments of the multi-segment filename, wherein each segment comprises one of a hash filename, a plain text instruction, or plain text content. The application organizes a network slice with one or more VNFs from coded instructions in a segment of the multi-segment filename. The application constructs the computing service within the VNF by transferring one or more executables, the data file, and one or more artifacts decrypted from hash filenames saved within the multi-segment filename to the network slice.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method of configuring a computing service on a communication network, comprising:

creating and providing a multi-segment filename by a local mobile carrier to a remote mobile carrier;
receiving the multi-segment filename by an installation application executing on computer system communicatively connected to a communication network, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each segment of the multi-segment filename, and wherein a first segment of the multi-segment filename comprises one or more of a hash filename, a second segment of the multi-segment filename comprises a plain text instruction, and a third segment of the multi-segment filename comprises a plain text content;
requesting an encrypted file content, by the installation application, by providing the hash filename extracted from one segment of the multi-segment filename;
receiving, by the installation application, the encrypted file content from a storage server, wherein the storage server is a local server, a remote server, or a server with distributed content;
generating a file content, by the installation application, by decrypting the encrypted file content with an encryption key;
and
constructing, by the installation application, the computing service within a communication network by configuring the communication network with the plain text instruction from the second segment of the multi-segment filename and transferring the file content to the communication network, wherein the multi-segment file name is used by the remote mobile carrier to recreate a network slice and a virtual network function environment for the computing service to execute on a remote mobile carrier network of the remote mobile carrier.

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A method of storing a configuration of a computing service configured to operate on a portion of a network, comprising:

configuring, by an installation application executing on a computer system, a multi-segment filename with a number of file segments, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each file segment of the multi-segment filename, and wherein a first segment of the multi-segment filename comprises a hash filename and a second segment of the multi-segment filename comprises a plain text word;
determining, by a hash function executing on the computer system, the hash filename by determining a hash of a file content of an element of the computing service;
encrypting, by an encryption function executing on the computer system, the file content of the element with an encryption key;
writing, by the installation application, the encrypted file content with the hash filename to a storage server, wherein the storage server is a local server, a remote server, or a server with distributed content;
writing, by the installation application, the hash filename to the first segment of a multi-segment filename;
writing, by the installation application, the plain text word to the second segment of the multi-segment filename, wherein the plain text word comprises one of plain text instructions or plain text content;
and
providing the multi-segment filename from a local mobile carrier to a remote mobile carrier, wherein the remote mobile carrier uses the multi-segment file name to recreate a network slice and a virtual network function environment for the computing service to execute on a remote mobile carrier network of the remote mobile carrier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.