US 12,010,565 B2Granted

Systems and methods for managing MEC application hosting

AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.

InventorsRakesh Mishra, Amitesh Shukla, Satish Kumar Mandavilly, Manish Jhanji

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Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a mobile edge computing (MEC) controller and from an application analytic engine, a registration request for an application. The registration request includes a request for MEC key performance indicators (KPIs). The method also includes communicating, by the MEC controller, MEC data associated with a first MEC host and a second MEC host to the application analytic engine. The method further includes receiving, by the MEC controller, MEC policies from the application analytic engine, determining to host the application in the first MEC host based on the MEC policies, and communicating the MEC policies to the first MEC host.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the one or more processors and comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to perform operations comprising:
communicating mobile edge computing (MEC) data associated with a first MEC host and a second MEC host to an application analytic engine;
receiving MEC policies from the application analytic engine;
determining to host a first application in the first MEC host based on the MEC policies;
communicating the MEC policies to the first MEC host;
determining that a user equipment (UE) is streaming content from the first application hosted in the first MEC host;
determining that the UE is moving to a third MEC host;
copying the content to a second application hosted in the third MEC host;
and
redirecting the UE to stream the content from the second application hosted in the third MEC host.

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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

communicating mobile edge computing (MEC) data associated with a first MEC host and a second MEC host to an application analytic engine;
receiving MEC policies from the application analytic engine;
determining to host a first application in the first MEC host based on the MEC policies;
communicating the MEC policies to the first MEC host;
determining that a user equipment (UE) is streaming content from the first application hosted in the first MEC host;
determining that the UE is moving to a third MEC host;
copying the content to a second application hosted in the third MEC host;
and
redirecting the UE to stream the content from the second application hosted in the third MEC host.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/863,940Filed 13 Jul 2022 · continuation
Priority: 22 Jan 2020
Published: US 2022/0353754 A13 Nov 2022
Granted: 11 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 4/50
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: service provisioning or reconfiguring
H04L 43/0876
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: network utilisation, e.g. volume of…
H04L 67/1012
Server selection for load balancing: based on compliance of requirements or conditions with available server resources
H04L 67/1021
Server selection for load balancing: based on client or server locations

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Application16/749,624Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jan 2020
US 2022/0353754 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Nov 2022
US 11,395,195 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0227427 A1Published application
US 12,010,565 B2This patent

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