US 11,843,545 B1
Method and system for containerized network function management service
Satish S. Vasamsetti, San Francisco, CA (US); Parry Cornell Booker, Sunnyvale, TX (US); Jerry Steben, Fort Worth, TX (US); and Emerando M. Delos Reyes, Pleasant Hill, CA (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/819,761.
Int. Cl. H04L 47/765 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/765 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
allocating, by a network device of an application service layer network, discrete sets of containerized network function (CNF) resources deployed as a plurality of pods to provide application services to end devices;
identifying, by the network device, threshold resource values associated with a first number of the deployed pods which are activated to provide the application services;
determining, by the network device, a first state of anticipated nonsatisfaction of multiple ones of the threshold resource values;
invoking, by the network device responsive to the first state and for a configurable period of time, non-incremental horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) via an application programming interface (API) to activate a second number of the deployed pods to provide the application services;
determining, by the network device, a second state of anticipated satisfaction of at least one of the multiple threshold resource values; and
invoking, by the network device responsive to the second state, incremental HPA via the API to activate a third number of the deployed pods until each of the plurality of deployed pods has been activated, to provide the application services.