Patent ID: 9648441
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of providing on-line services to a user from a service provider over a wireless cellular telephone network, the method comprising: the service provider using a processing slice of the wireless cellular telephone network to host a software image of the service provider, including the service provider transmitting the software image and operating characteristics over a distributed computer system to the wireless cellular telephone network, wherein the wireless cellular telephone network is located in series between said users and the service provider; installing said software image on one or more nodes of the wireless cellular telephone network to make a specified service of the service provider available from the wireless cellular telephone network to users of the wireless cellular telephone network; the wireless cellular telephone network managing distribution of the specified service of the service provider from the wireless cellular telephone network to the users of the wireless cellular telephone network by executing the software image on said processing slice of the wireless cellular telephone network, in response to requests to the wireless cellular telephone network from the users of the wireless cellular telephone network, to execute the specified service of the service provider and to provide said specified service of the service provider to the users of the wireless cellular telephone network from said processing slice of the wireless cellular telephone network, including when one of the users of the wireless cellular telephone network connects to the wireless cellular telephone network for the specified service from the service provider, the wireless cellular telephone network operating said software image of the service provider on said one or more nodes of the wireless cellular telephone network in accordance with said operating characteristics, to provide the specified service of the service provider to said one of the users from said one or more nodes of the wireless cellular telephone network; the service provider connecting to the software image in said one or more nodes of an edge network in the wireless cellular telephone network over a tunneled link to transmit data, under control of the service provider to the software images image at the one or more nodes, to allow the service provider customized treatment of subscriber traffic by the software image installed on the one or more nodes of the wireless cellular telephone network; and the wireless cellular telephone network using a specified manager application to manage the software image of the service provider on the wireless cellular telephone network, and to isolate operations of the wireless cellular telephone network from a process by which the service provider supplies the software image; and wherein: the operating the software image includes receiving cellular telephone signals from said one of the users and addressed to the service provider, converting the received signals to data packets, and diverting the data packets to said processing slice of the wireless cellular telephone network.