System and method for network provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10341176-B2
Application number	US-201815912444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2018
Priority date	Mar 28, 2013
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

Implementations described and claimed herein provided for a system for provisioning network resources. The system includes a network provisioning abstraction layer having an application interface for receiving network provisioning requests from applications and determine provisioning instructions for fulfilling the requests. Each of the received provisioning instructions is queued in a priority queuing system according to a request priority. The provisioning instructions for the highest priority requests are removed from the front of the queue and sent to a resource interface that relays the requests to the appropriate network resources.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for network provisioning using a network provisioning abstraction layer comprising a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory, the memory storing instructions for execution on the processor, the instructions configured to cause the processor to:
receive a first request for provisioning a first network resource, the first request having a first priority, and a second request for provisioning a second network resource, the second resource having a second priority, the first and second requests received at an application interface configured for communications over a network, the application interface comprising:
a first application adapter configured to receive the first request from a first application;
a second application adapter configured to receive the second request from a second application;

search, based on the first request and the second request, for at least one provisioning instruction for executing the first request and at least one provisioning instruction for executing the second request;
prioritize and store the at least one provisioning instruction for executing the first request and the at least one provisioning instruction for executing the second request according to the first priority level and the second priority level, wherein the first priority level is a higher priority than the second priority level;
send the at least one provisioning instruction for executing the first request to at least one network resource to fulfill the first request using a resource interface configured for network communications; and
send the at least one provisioning instruction for executing the second request to at least one network resource to fulfill the second request after sending the at least one provisioning instruction for executing the first request to at least one network resource using the resource interface.

Assignees

• Level 3 Communications Llc

Inventors

• Uzelac Adam Charles
• Behmlander Darren
• Chan Michael Dana
• Doyle Thomas
• Pendergrast Gregory
• Zaleski Kenneth
• Terpstra Richard Dean
• Moore Richard D
• Mcfalls George

Classifications

• H04L47/6215

  Individual queue per QOS, rate or priority · CPC title

• H04L41/0806 Primary

  for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play · CPC title

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title