US 11,943,105 B2
Dynamic management of application servers on network edge computing device
Jiongxuan Chen, Shandong (CN); Zhi Wang, Shandong (CN); and Yigang Cai, Naperville, IL (US)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/252,101
Filed by NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jun. 15, 2018, PCT No. PCT/CN2018/091667
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/237363, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0258217 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0816 (2013.01) [H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
at a management function module,
transmitting, to a network edge computing device, a calling function deployment command to deploy a calling function instance on the network edge computing device, the calling function instance being configured to connect with application servers for respective applications and handle communications between terminal devices and the application servers; and
transmitting, to at least one of the network edge computing device and the calling function instance, a management command for application servers on the network edge computing device in response to a network condition meeting one of predetermined management policies, wherein the calling function instance is configured with the predetermined management policies, the method further comprises:
receiving a network condition notification from the calling function instance on an edge cloud, the network condition notification indicating the network condition meeting the one of the predetermined management policies,
wherein transmitting the management command comprising transmitting the management command in response to the receiving of the network condition notification.