Patent ID: 11916734
Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A content application server (CAS) configured to provide an application service via a network slice of a communication network to at least one user equipment (UE), wherein the communication network is configured to enable instantiation of network slices which represent virtual networks, wherein the communication network comprises one or more slice management network functions for management of the network slices,
wherein the content application server comprises:
a network interface configured to communicate with the communication network;
a processor system configured to:
authenticate to a network function (SREF) which is configured to enable the content application server to at least in part manage the network slice;
access a slice object generated by the network function, wherein the slice object comprises at least one modifiable object property representing one or more properties of the network slice which are modifiable by at least one slice management network function; and
manage the network slice by modifying the modifiable object property of the slice object to obtain a modified object property.