Patent ID: 11956131
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of intent based network slice management, comprising:
receiving a service profile in a form of expectations and contexts from a communication service management function (CSMF);
deriving an intent including desired network slice attributes and profile characteristics for relevant network slice subnets;
deriving requirements for a plurality of network functions (NFs) from the intent for the desired network slice subnet;
generating an intent for each NF of the plurality of NFs, the intent for each NF including limited information defining the requirements of the respective NF;
deriving a network resource model (NRM) for the respective NF based on the intent for the respective NF, wherein the NRM defines information object classes (IOCs) for expected performance of the respective NF and IOCs for a configuration of the respective NF; and
translating the NRM for the respective NF to a NF vendor-specific interface by a convergence agent for one of a plurality of NF vendors.