公开(公告)号：US20190058633A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-21

申请号：US15680119

申请日：2017-08-17

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mahesh Chapalamadugu ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L41/0853 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/145 ,  H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/5096

Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to condense a large quantity of Virtual Network Function (VNF) chains (that each correspond to a network service) into a much smaller quantity of VNF records; and extract any of the large quantity of VNF chains from the smaller quantity of network service records. This may be accomplished by assigning a Number (No.) of Services attribute and a Tier attribute into each VNF record. The No. of Services attribute and Tier attribute may enable the VNF records to reference one another such that the largeer quantity of VNF chains may, in effect, be entirely represented by the much smaller quantity of VNF records, thereby conserving storage space, streamlining VNF chain management, and reducing the processing and memory capacity required to search, configure, and deploy virtual network services.

公开(公告)号：US11095517B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-17

申请号：US16210059

申请日：2018-12-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata ,  Vinod Ramalingam ,  Brian E. Stephenson ,  Manish K. Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04L9/08 ,  G06F8/65

Abstract: A customer premises device may include a memory configured to store day 0 configuration instructions, a first network interface to couple to an out-of-band orchestration and management path, a second network interface operatively coupled to a customer network, and at least one processor configured to automatically and without user input execute the day 0 configuration instructions. The at least one processor is configured to establish and maintain a secure tunnel connection with a security gateway device via the out-of-band orchestration and management path and to establish a connection with a configuration platform on the provider network via the secure tunnel connection. Orchestration instructions for configuring one or more VNFs are received from the configuration platform via the tunnel connection. The at least one processor is further configured to receive VNF management instructions via the secure tunnel connection, wherein the VNF management instructions include one of: updates, reconfigurations, or patches.

公开(公告)号：US10791029B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-29

申请号：US16459416

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mahesh Chapalamadugu ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to condense a large quantity of Virtual Network Function (VNF) chains (that each correspond to a network service) into a much smaller quantity of VNF records; and extract any of the large quantity of VNF chains from the smaller quantity of network service records. This may be accomplished by assigning a Number (No.) of Services attribute and a Tier attribute into each VNF record. The No. of Services attribute and Tier attribute may enable the VNF records to reference one another such that the larger quantity of VNF chains may, in effect, be entirely represented by the much smaller quantity of VNF records, thereby conserving storage space, streamlining VNF chain management, and reducing the processing and memory capacity required to search, configure, and deploy virtual network services.

公开(公告)号：US20200186427A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16210059

申请日：2018-12-05

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata ,  Vinod Ramalingam ,  Brian E. Stephenson ,  Manish K. Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F9/455 ,  H04L9/08 ,  H04L9/32

Abstract: A customer premises device may include a memory configured to store day 0 configuration instructions, a first network interface to couple to an out-of-band orchestration and management path, a second network interface operatively coupled to a customer network, and at least one processor configured to automatically and without user input execute the day 0 configuration instructions. The at least one processor is configured to establish and maintain a secure tunnel connection with a security gateway device via the out-of-band orchestration and management path and to establish a connection with a configuration platform on the provider network via the secure tunnel connection. Orchestration instructions for configuring one or more VNFs are received from the configuration platform via the tunnel connection. The at least one processor is further configured to receive VNF management instructions via the secure tunnel connection, wherein the VNF management instructions include one of: updates, reconfigurations, or patches.

公开(公告)号：US10389590B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US15680119

申请日：2017-08-17

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Mahesh Chapalamadugu ,  Raju Sharma ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Ramesh Nadella

IPC: H04L12/24

Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to condense a large quantity of Virtual Network Function (VNF) chains (that each correspond to a network service) into a much smaller quantity of VNF records; and extract any of the large quantity of VNF chains from the smaller quantity of network service records. This may be accomplished by assigning a Number (No.) of Services attribute and a Tier attribute into each VNF record. The No. of Services attribute and Tier attribute may enable the VNF records to reference one another such that the larger quantity of VNF chains may, in effect, be entirely represented by the much smaller quantity of VNF records, thereby conserving storage space, streamlining VNF chain management, and reducing the processing and memory capacity required to search, configure, and deploy virtual network services.

公开(公告)号：US10117285B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-30

申请号：US14970828

申请日：2015-12-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ramesh Nadella ,  Chris F. Sefcik ,  Prasad Deviprasad ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Sreenivasa R. Pokuri ,  Raju Sharma

IPC: H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04L12/713

Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.

公开(公告)号：US20170181210A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-22

申请号：US14970828

申请日：2015-12-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Ramesh Nadella ,  Chris F. Sefcik ,  Prasad Deviprasad ,  Manish Srivastava ,  Sreenivasa R. Pokuri ,  Raju Sharma

IPC: H04W76/02 ,  H04W48/16

CPC classification number: H04W76/15 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/12

Abstract: A network device obtains credentials of a customer associated with multiple different cloud providers of which the customer is a subscriber, and establishes, using the credentials of the customer, a cloud wide area network (WAN) overlay network across multiple different cloud computing networks associated with the multiple different cloud providers. The network device, when establishing the cloud WAN overlay network, spins up multiple virtual routers in the cloud resources of the customer at each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, with a different one of the multiple virtual routers being spun up in each of the multiple different cloud computing networks, where each of the multiple different cloud computing networks is associated with a different one of the multiple different cloud providers, and where the multiple virtual routers route data traffic between the different cloud computing networks via the cloud WAN overlay network.