Virtual service networks

MA Bordeleau, R Kommula, J Tidemann… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
2019/0268633 Al 2019/0268973 A1 2019/0280976 Al 2019/0287146 Al 2019/0289470 A1
2019/0320494 Al 2019/0373520 A1 2020/0007445 Al 2020/0053531 A1 2020/0053545 A1 …

Redirecting traffic from mobile device to initial slice selector for connection

MA Bordeleau, R Kommula, J Tidemann… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a first network slice selector that selects network
slices for connections from endpoint devices located within a first geographic range. The …

Retrieval of slice selection state for mobile device connection

MA Bordeleau, R Kommula, J Tidemann… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a first network slice selector that assigns data
messages received from endpoint devices located within a first geographic range to multiple …

Stateful network slice selection using slice selector as connection termination proxy

MA Bordeleau, R Kommula, J Tidemann… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a network slice selector. From an electronic
device, the method receives a connection initiation message for a connection between the …

Hierarchical network slice selection

MA Bordeleau, R Kommula, J Tidemann… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for a first network slice selector that assigns data
messages to a first set of network slices that each comprises an ordered set of network …

Forwarding element with physical and virtual data planes

R Kommula, C Polychronopoulos, T Sridhar… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-
based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network …

Performing ingress side control through egress side limits on forwarding elements

R Kommula, C Polychronopoulos, T Sridhar… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-
based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network …

Forwarding element slice identifying control plane

R Kommula, C Polychronopoulos, T Sridhar… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
2019/0174573 Al 6/2019 Velev et al. 2019/0187999 A1 6/2019 Lu et al. 2019/0191309 Al
6/2019 Kweon et al. 2019/0200286 A1 6/2019 Usui et al. 2019/0268633 A1 8/2019 …

Performing slice based operations in a data plane circuit

R Kommula, C Polychronopoulos, T Sridhar… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of performing network slice-
based operations on a data message at a hardware forwarding element (HFE) in a network …

Separate IO and control threads on one datapath Pod of a RIC

A Singh, A Gudipati - US Patent 11,540,287, 2022 - Google Patents
To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into
several different compo nents that operate on different machines (eg, execute on VMs or …