US 12,143,263 B2
System and method for cordon of O-cloud node
Manmeet Bhangu, Indore (IN); Pankaj Shete, Tokyo (JP); and Jyoti Bose, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Rakuten Symphony India Private Limited, Indore (IN); RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo (JP); and RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/019,108
Filed by RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo (JP); and RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 28, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/054143
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 1, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2024/102154, PCT Pub. Date May 16, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. 202221063941 (IN), filed on Nov. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0267287 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 41/052 (2022.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0803 (2013.01) [H04L 41/052 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for cordoning one or more Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Cloud (O-Cloud) nodes, the method comprising:
receiving, by a Service Management and Orchestration Framework (SMO) function, a first request to cordon at least one O-Cloud node, the first request being received from a user terminal or from an rApp of a Non-Real-Time (Non-RT) RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC);
transmitting, by the SMO function to an Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) and/or Deployment Management Services (DMS) via an O2 interface, a second request to cordon the at least one O-Cloud node based on the received first request; and
receiving, from the IMS/DMS, a first notification that the at least one O-Cloud node has been cordoned,
wherein the SMO function is at least one of a Federated O-Cloud Orchestration and Management (FOCOM) and Network Function Orchestration (NFO).