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

Claim 11:
12. A computer implemented method for use with 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 network slice represents a virtual network, wherein the communication network is configured to enable instantiation of network slices, wherein the communication network comprises one or more slice management network functions for management of the network slices, wherein the method comprises:
authenticating to a network function (SREF) which is configured to at least in part enable the content application server to manage the network slice;
accessing 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
managing the network slice by modifying the modifiable object property of the slice object to obtain a modified object property.