Patent ID: 11916753
Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for programming a device for performing steps of:
receiving information from a governed system having resources, wherein the governed system is a network;
implementing a plurality of context specific control applications that each is a pipeline of a plurality of functions to control the resources and with specified interfaces to other context specific control applications, wherein each context specific control application of the plurality of context specific control applications is configured to control functional behavior of a corresponding aspect of the network, wherein a context specific control application of the plurality of context specific control applications controls one of functional behavior of (i) a network slice, (ii) a specific protocol, (iii) an Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) function, and (iv) resources associated with the network slice, wherein the plurality of functions include sensing, discerning, inferring, deciding, and causing the actions;
utilizing the information as one input to a first function in the plurality of functions of a context specific control application;
utilizing inputs from another one or more of the plurality of context specific control applications as inputs to any of the plurality of functions of the context specific control application;
causing actions on the resources based on outputs of a last function in the plurality of functions of the context specific control application; and
dynamically selecting one or more infer engines of a plurality of infer engines.