US 12,477,399 B2
Method and apparatus for edgeless enterprises
John Taylor, Cupertino, CA (US); Srinivasan Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US); Mehmet Yavuz, Campbell, CA (US); Puneet Prabhakar Shetty, San Francisco, CA (US); Suparna Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US); and Ravi Mulam, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to CELONA, INC., Campbell, CA (US)
Filed by Celona, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,680.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/273,788, filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0134430 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 28/08 (2023.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0967 (2020.05) [H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 28/24 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of defining a microslice by a network administrator of an enterprise network, to efficiently arrange data flows in the enterprise network and provide an end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) between wireless user equipment (UE) in the enterprise network and an external server, comprising the steps of:
defining a QoS, including defining QoS parameters; and
creating and defining a micro slice for a dataflow, the creating and defining of the microslice including
assigning, by the network administrator, the QoS parameters to the microslice;
responsive to said QoS parameters, providing Service Level Objectives for the microslice; the microsplice being components that provide the SLA required for data flow for a given application, the components include a control function and a user plane function in an orchestration function, core function and functions of Radio Access Network (RAN) layers;
assigning at least one bearer to the microslice, the at least one bearer meeting the QoS and SLOs of the microslice, to provide an end-to-end logical network between the UE and the external server, said end-to-end logical network connecting the UE and external server through at least a RAN and a Core Network; and
determining functional groupings associated with the microslices based on a deconstruction performed on a per application basis, the deconstruction including providing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) required for a given application via functional blocks and connections that constitute the microslice.