Patent ID: 11871318
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method, comprising:
receiving configuration information specifying a first set of tags associated with a first tier of a wireless network, wherein the first tier includes at least one of:
one or more network slices of the wireless network,
one or more core networks of the wireless network, or
one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of the wireless network;

receiving configuration information specifying a second set of tags associated with a second tier of a wireless network, wherein the second tier is associated with a set of network functions (“NFs”);
receiving an authentication request from a management system;
determining, based on the authentication request, that the management system is associated with a particular slice, a particular core network, or a particular RAN of the first tier of the wireless network;
identifying a particular subset of tags, of the first set of tags, that are associated with the particular slice, the particular core network, or the particular RAN;
determining, based on the authentication request, that the management system is associated with access to modify parameters associated with the second tier;
identifying a subset of the set of NFs based on the set of tags associated with the particular slice, the particular core network, or the particular RAN with which the management system is associated;
providing, to the management system and based on determining that the management system is associated with access to modify parameters associated with the second tier, one or more options to configure one or more NFs of the selected subset of NFs, without providing options to configure the particular slice, the particular core network, or the particular RAN, wherein providing the one or more options to configure the one or more NFs without providing options to configure the particular slice, the particular core network, or the particular RAN includes:
providing the one or more options to configure the one or more NFs without providing options to remove NFs from the particular slice, the particular core network, or the particular RAN;

receiving, from the management system, configuration information associated with a particular NF of the selected subset of NFs;
identifying, based on the second set of tags, one or more additional operations associated with the particular NF; and
performing one or more modifications to the wireless network based on the received configuration information and the identified one or more additional operations associated with the particular NF.