Patent ID: 11929879
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a computer program product that, when executed by a processor, cause an apparatus to:
create virtualized network function package information (VNFPI) for each virtualized network function (VNF) included in a network service (NS);
obtain a node type of each VNF from a VNF package (VNFP) corresponding to the VNF, wherein the VNFP comprises a VNF descriptor (VNFD);
associate the node type with the respective VNFPI;
obtain a first identifier of the VNFD indicating the VNFD from each VNFP;
store the first identifier of the VNFD in the respective VNFPI;
receive a NS instantiation request for the NS;
provide network service description information (NSD) based on the NS instantiation request, wherein the NSD comprises the node type of each VNF;
obtain the respective VNFPI associated with the node type;
obtain the first identifier of the VNFD from the respective VNFPI; and
request, based on the first identifier, a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) to instantiate the respective VNF.