Patent ID: 11949557
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by one or more processing devices and upon such execution cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
managing physical layer configuration information that is information on a configuration of a physical node on a physical layer and virtual layer configuration information that is information on a configuration of a virtual node on a virtual layer;
performing mapping between the physical layer and the virtual layer;
specifying a location of the physical node included in the physical layer configuration information;
determining a first physical node that is to be a connection destination to which a device utilizing a service is to be connected, based on at least any one of the specified location, service management information that is managed as information on the service, a network connection configuration of a network connecting the device utilizing the service to the first physical node determined to be the connection destination, and quality of the network in response to a request for configuration change regarding a connection of the device utilizing the service to the first physical node determined to be the connection destination;
creating a blueprint in response to the request for the configuration change, which blueprint includes design information on an infrastructure required for the configuration change, based on the physical layer configuration information, the virtual layer configuration information, mapping information that is information obtained as a result of the mapping, and the connection destination; and
performing orchestration of the virtual layer based on the blueprint by accessing and running a program that is operable via a southbound application programming interface (API),
wherein the service management information includes information about an application utilized and about an operating ICT resource containing an identifier of the ICT resource that operates when a target service is provided.