Patent ID: 11924292
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, from an administrative user, deployment objectives for a network deployment, wherein the deployment objectives comprise natural language requests for the network deployment;
identifying currently deployed hardware infrastructure in the network deployment, wherein the currently deployed hardware infrastructure comprises one of a deployed hardware infrastructure in operation and hardware infrastructure in an unfinished deployment configuration, wherein the unfinished deployment configuration comprises at least one unfinished hardware deployment objective;
identifying information sources to provide information for evaluating candidates for additional infrastructure to include in the network deployment to meet the deployment objectives and based on the currently deployed hardware infrastructure;
performing a cognitive computing analysis based on the deployment objectives to identify a configuration of the network deployment that includes the additional infrastructure selected from the candidates provided by the information sources, comprising identifying weighted features for the candidates based on parsing the natural language requests; and
providing the administrative user with the configuration.