US 2024/0202196 A1 · METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT GENERATE COMPONENT QUANTITIES FOR SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS

Abstract

The current document is directed to methods and systems that generate lists of component types and quantities needed for system installations based on parameter values that characterize the system, environment, and application domain, referred to as “input values.” An implementation of a private-5G-network component-type-and-quantity-determination system is disclosed. An initial model used to generate component types and quantities is generated from information acquired from various information sources, including system vendors, designers, and/or administrators. The initial model is used to generate lists of component types and quantities on behalf of requesting entities during an initial period of system operation. Over time, as the final types and quantities of components used for particular installations are determined and reported back to the system, the system uses these reported results to refine the initial model, generate more specific models for particular types or classes of system installations and to refine the more specific models.

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A component-types-and-quantities-estimator system (“CTQ estimator”) that estimates the types and quantities of system components needed for a system installation, the CTQ estimator comprising:

a computing platform that provides an execution environment for CTQ-estimator functionality, the computer platform implemented within one or more computer systems that each includes one or more processors, one or memories, and one or more mass-storage appliances or devices;
and
computer instructions, stored in one of the one or more memories, that, when executed in the execution environment, control the one or more computer systems to:
receive a request for a list of component types and quantities for installation of a system, the received request including a set of parameter values, and return the requested list of component types and quantities;
and
receive a final-configuration report that includes a list of component types and quantities installed in a system installation and a set of parameter values and stores the final-configuration report for use in refining component models used for determining the component types and quantities for installation of systems and for partitioning a model, comprising component models, that corresponds to a parameter-value space or subspace into sub-models corresponding to different parameter-value subspaces.

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A method that automatically estimates the types and quantities of system components needed for a system installation, the method comprising:

receiving a request for a list of component types and quantities for installation of a system, the received request including a set of parameter values;
using the set of parameter values to traverse a comprehensive data structure to identify a model that represents a class of system installation characterized by the set of parameter values;
for each component type for which a component model is included in the model,
using the component model for the component type and a polynomial expression associated with the component type to generate an estimate of the quantity of components of the component type needed for the system installation;
including the estimated component quantities generated from the component models in a list of component types and quantities;
and
returning the list of component types and quantities to the requestor entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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