US 12,267,328 B2
Multitenant network orchestration
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US); Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US); John Matthew Swartz, Lithia, FL (US); Paul Brian Giralt, Cary, NC (US); David John Zacks, Vancouver (CA); and Gonzalo Salgueiro, Raleigh, NC (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/695,265.
Prior Publication US 2023/0300138 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [H04L 63/029 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a resource manager, a request for partitioning one or more network resources of an on-premise network device for connecting one or more endpoints to a first network managed by a first entity, wherein the on-premise network device connects the one or more endpoints to a second network managed by a second entity different from the first entity;
partitioning, based on the request, the one or more network resources of the on-premise network device; and
connecting the one or more endpoints to the first network using the one or more network resources of the on-premise network device, wherein the one or more network resources are managed by the first entity while at least one other network resource of the on-premise network device is managed by the second entity and is associated with connecting the one or more endpoints to the second network.