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US 12,120,009 B2Granted
Apparatus, method, and computer program
AssigneeNokia Solutions and Networks Oy
InventorsJanne Tapio Ali-Tolppa, Jürgen Goerge, Anatoly Andrianov, Jing Ping
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine (902) that at least one state of a network slice is to be adjusted in a limited geographical area of at least one network resource; and adjust (904, 906, 908) the at least one state of the network slice in the limited geographical area of the at least one network resource.
Claims12
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- determine that at least one state of a network slice is to be adjusted in a limited geographical area of at least one network resource, wherein the limited geographical area is smaller than a geographic coverage of the network slice;
- and
- adjust the at least one state of the network slice in the limited geographical area of the at least one network resource, wherein the at least one state of the network slice comprises an administrative state, wherein the administrative state takes a locked value, unlocked value and a shutting down value,
- wherein the at least one network resource is associated with a list of network slices supported by the network resource,
- wherein each network slice in the list of network slices supported by the at least one network resource is associated with a slice specific state vector of at least one state attribute,
- wherein adjusting the at least one state of the network slice comprises adjusting the at least one state attribute of the slice specific vector,
- wherein the at least one state of the network slice further comprises an availability status, wherein the availability status takes an in test value, a degraded value, a dependency value, a failed value, a power off value, an off line value, an off duty value a not installed value and a log full value.
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A method comprising:
- determining that at least one state of a network slice is to be adjusted in a limited geographical area of at least one network resource, wherein the limited geographical area is smaller than a geographic coverage of the network slice;
- and
- adjusting the at least one state of the network slice in the limited geographical area of the at least one network resource, wherein the at least one state of the network slice comprises an administrative state, wherein the administrative state takes a locked value, unlocked value and a shutting down value,
- wherein the at least one network resource is associated with a list of network slices supported by the network resource,
- wherein each network slice in the list of network slices supported by the at least one network resource is associated with a slice specific state vector of at least one state attribute,
- wherein adjusting the at least one state of the network slice comprises adjusting the at least one state attribute of the slice specific vector,
- wherein the at least one state of the network slice further comprises an availability status, wherein the availability status takes an in test value, a degraded value, a dependency value, a failed value, a power off value, an off line value, an off duty value, a not installed value and a log full value.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which when run on one or more processors perform:
- determining that at least one state of a network slice is to be adjusted in a limited geographical area of at least one network resource, wherein the limited geographical area is smaller than a geographic coverage of the network slice;
- and
- adjusting the at least one state of the network slice in the limited geographical area of the at least one network resource, wherein the at least one state of the network slice comprises an administrative state, wherein the administrative state takes a locked value, unlocked value and a shutting down value,
- wherein the at least one network resource is associated with a list of network slices supported by the network resource,
- wherein each network slice in the list of network slices supported by the at least one network resource is associated with a slice specific state vector of at least one state attribute,
- wherein adjusting the at least one state of the network slice comprises adjusting the at least one state attribute of the slice specific vector,
- wherein the at least one state of the network slice further comprises an availability status, wherein the availability status takes an in test value, a degraded value, a dependency value, a failed value, a power off value, an off line value, an off duty value, a not installed value and a log full value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.