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

Claim 10:
11. A computer implemented method for use with a communication network which 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 method comprises enabling a content application server (CAS), which is configured to provide an application service via a network slice to at least one user equipment (UE), to at least in part manage the network slice by:
generating an abstraction of properties of the network slice in the form of a data structure representing a slice object;
exposing the properties of the network slice to the content application server by providing access to the slice object;
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,
wherein the method further comprises:
enabling the content application server to modify the modifiable object property to obtain a modified object property; and
based on the modified object property, sending a request to the at least one slice management network function to request a corresponding modification of the one or more properties of the network slice.