Patent ID: 11870661
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of deployment of a first service for a first customer, the method comprising:
determining, from a permissioned distributed ledger that is distributed between network operator systems of network operators and customer systems, network slice templates that include respective descriptions of network characteristics that provide respective logical networks;
selecting based on a service description of the first service a subset of the network slice templates and a corresponding subset of the network operator systems for deployment of the first service across the network operators, wherein the selecting comprising:
selecting a first network slice template from a first set of network slice templates and a first network operator system; and
selecting a second network slice template from a second set of network slice templates and a second network operator system; and

requesting instantiation of the subset of the network slice templates on the corresponding subset of the network operator systems as a subset of network slice instances to form the first service deployed for the first customer by requesting instantiation of the first network slice template to obtain a first network slice instance with a first network operator and requesting instantiation of the second network slice template to obtain a second network slice instance with a second network operator to deploy the first service across the first network operator and the second network operator.