Patent ID: 9544194
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A network management service system, including: a policy management apparatus that receives updating of a communication policy from a user and manages the communication policy for each user; a control apparatus that generates a packet handling operation of a packet associated with the communication policy of the user, in response to a request from the user, and sets the generated packet handling operation in a forwarding node(s); the forwarding node(s) that processes the packet, using the packet handling operation generated by the control apparatus; and in a same region as a region where the forwarding node(s) physically exists: wherein, when a fault occurs in one or both of the control apparatus and the policy management apparatus, management of the communication policy for each user and process of generating the packet handling operation in accordance with the communication policy are requested to the local control apparatus and the local policy management apparatus.