US 12,192,114 B1 · Direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers

Abstract

Direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers is provided. A method for direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers may include determining a potential conflict between subsets of services that are requested for two or more applications among an available set of services of an intelligent controller. The apparatus may transmit conflict negotiation requests to each of the two or more applications requesting that the two or more applications perform conflict negotiation between each other to allocate the subsets of services among the available set of services, and process responses from each of the two or more applications indicating results of the conflict negotiation.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
determine a potential conflict between subsets of services that are requested for two or more applications among an available set of services of an intelligent controller;
transmit conflict negotiation requests to each of the two or more applications requesting that the two or more applications perform conflict negotiation between each other to allocate the subsets of services among the available set of services, the requests comprising a unique negotiation key identifying the negotiation process;
and
process responses from each of the two or more applications indicating results of the conflict negotiation.

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An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
receive a conflict negotiation request from a network platform function requesting to perform conflict negotiation with one or more applications to allocate subsets of services among an available set of services the request comprising a unique negotiation key identifying the negotiation process;
perform the conflict negotiation that allocates the subsets of services among the available set of services between the apparatus and the one or more applications;
and
transmit a response message to the network platform function indicating results of the conflict negotiation.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/747,924Filed 19 Jun 2024

Priority

FI 202357843 Jul 2023

Published

US 2025/0016112 A19 Jan 2025

Granted

7 Jan 2025

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

H04L 47/748
Measures in reaction to resource unavailability: negotiation of resources, e.g. modification of a request
H04L 69/24
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass:…
H04L 47/803
Actions related to the user profile or the type of traffic: application aware
H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Direct conflict mitigation in near real-time radio access network intelligent controllers

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Abstract

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