Patent ID: 11876729
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a service function chain (SFC) orchestrator, a SFC request for a SFC and a second SFC, wherein the SFC comprises at least one virtual network function (VNF) and one service;
in response to the SFC request:
performing a SFC prioritization on the SFC and a second SFC to obtain a prioritized list,
wherein the SFC prioritization is based on a complexity of the SFC and a second complexity of the second SFC,
wherein the prioritized list specifies the SFC first and the second SFC second;
determining, based on the prioritized list, a set of candidate local data systems (LDSs) for the SFC based on a resource availability mapping;
performing, by the SFC orchestrator, a LDS analysis on the set of candidate LDSs;
based on the LDS analysis:
assigning the VNF to a candidate LDS of the set of candidate LDSs;
assigning the service to a second LDS of the set of candidate LDSs; and

based on the assigning of the VNF and the assigning of the service, initiating, by the SFC orchestrator, a deployment of the VNF and the service,
wherein the SFC orchestrator executes as an application on the candidate LDS.