US 11,714,672 B2
Virtual infrastructure manager enhancements for remote edge cloud deployments
Santanu Dasgupta, Fremont, CA (US); Chandragupta Ganguly, San Jose, CA (US); Ian Wells, San Jose, CA (US); Rajiv Asati, Morrisville, NC (US); Om Prakash Suthar, Bolingbrook, IL (US); Vinod Pandarinathan, Fremont, CA (US); Ajay Kalambur, Fremont, CA (US); Yichen Wang, San Jose, CA (US); and John Wei-I Wu, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/521,381.
Application 17/521,381 is a continuation of application No. 16/408,634, filed on May 10, 2019, granted, now 11,210,126.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/806,041, filed on Feb. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0222102 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04L 41/046 (2022.01); H04L 41/04 (2022.01); H04W 28/00 (2009.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [H04L 41/04 (2013.01); H04L 41/046 (2013.01); H04L 41/40 (2022.05); H04W 28/00 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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11. A system comprising:
a plurality of edge compute entities configured to process virtual service workloads, each edge compute entity including multiple compute nodes that run virtual service workloads to perform radio access network compute and control functions, each edge compute entity further configured to execute a virtualization monitoring agent function;
a management entity in network communication with the plurality of edge compute entities, the management entity including data storage resources comprising one or more persistent storages and configured to provide centralized, persistent data storage for the plurality of edge compute entities; and
compute resources configured to provide centralized management of the plurality of edge compute entities, wherein the compute resources includes at least one processor that is configured to execute a virtualization monitoring service function that is in communication with the virtualization monitoring agent function running on each of the plurality of edge compute entities to manage network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) lifecycle of resources of the plurality of edge compute entities.