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

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code, comprising code to:
receive a service profile in a form of expectations and contexts from a communication service management function (CSMF);
derive an intent including desired network slice attributes and profile characteristics for relevant network slice subnets;
derive requirements for a plurality of network functions (NFs) from the intent for the desired network slice subnet;
generate an intent for each NF of the plurality of NFs via an intent-based interface for management of NFs, the intent for each NF including limited information defining requirements of the respective NF;
derive 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
translate the NRM for the respective NF to a NF vendor-specific interface by a convergence agent for one of a plurality of NF vendors.