Patent Document ID: 9838272
Application ID: 14684530
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for service enhancement discovery in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network, the method comprising: obtaining network measurements for one or more candidate services in the network; utilizing the network measurements to determine one or more service enhancements for the one or more candidate services, wherein the one or more service enhancements provide additional network functionality to the one or more candidate services; determining a cost and a benefit for each of the service enhancements for the one or more candidate services; providing the service enhancements for the one or more candidate services based on scoring using associated cost and associated benefit of each of the service enhancements, wherein the cost is determined based on a cost of adding the service enhancement in the network and the benefit is determined based on increments to one of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for the one or more candidate services; and implementing one or more of the provided service enhancements in the network using a control plane.