System and method for enabling service lifecycle based policy, licensing, and charging in a network function virtualization ecosystem
US10348517B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 11, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jul 9, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W12/041
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and computing devices may be configured to intelligently apply service-level policy, charging, licensing, and authorization controls in a telecommunication system that implements or uses network function virtualization technologies. A server computing device deployed in the telecommunication network may be configured to receive a policy request message relating to a network service lifecycle event from another network component, use the information included in the received policy request message to make a service-level policy decision, generate a trigger definition relating to the network service lifecycle event based on the policy decision, generate a policy response message that includes the trigger definition, and send the generated policy response message to the network component.
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