System and method for network provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9912537-B2
Application number	US-201615369564-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2016
Priority date	Mar 28, 2013
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

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 network provisioning request at a first application, the network provisioning request having a first priority level, from a first application;
wherein the first network provisioning request is used to search for at least one provisioning instruction;
prioritize the at least one provisioning instruction relative to other provisioning instructions according to the first priority level; and
provide the at least one provisioning instruction to at least one network resource for completing the first network provisioning request,
wherein the at least one provisioning instruction comprises:
a first instruction for provisioning a first network resource in order to fulfill the first network provisioning request; and
a second instruction for provisioning a second network resource in order to fulfill the first network provisioning request,
wherein the first network resource is provided with the first instruction after the second network resource is provided with the second instruction.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one provisioning instruction is prioritized relative to other provisioning instructions using a priority queue.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the search for the at least one provisioning instruction is conducted by using the first network provisioning request to query a database.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the priority queue comprises a plurality of queues, each queue associated with a different priority level, including at least a high priority queue for a high priority network service request and a low priority queue for a low priority network service request.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the processor to:
receive a status from the first network resource after an execution of at least one provisioning instruction by the first network resource; and
report the status to the first application.

6. A method for provisioning network resources comprising:
receiving a first network provisioning request, the request having a first priority level;
searching for at least one provisioning instruction for completing the first network provisioning request the first network provisioning request;
prioritizing the at least one provisioning instruction relative to other provisioning instructions according to the first priority level; and
providing the at least one provisioning instruction to at least one network resource for completing the first network provisioning request,
wherein the at least one provisioning instruction comprises:
a first instruction for provisioning a first network resource in order to fulfill the first network provisioning request;
a second instruction for provisioning a second network resource in order to fulfill the first network provision request; and
providing the first instruction to the first network resource after the second network resource has been provisioned.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein prioritizing the at least one provisioning instruction relative to other provisioning instructions according to the first priority level comprises placing the at least one provisioning instruction in one of a plurality of priority queues, each priority queue associated with a particular priority level.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein searching for at least one provisioning instruction comprises querying a database for the at least one provisioning instruction using the first network provisioning request.

9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving a status from the first network resource after an execution of at least one provisioning instruction by the first network resource; and
reporting the status to an application.

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

• 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

• H04L47/6215

  Individual queue per QOS, rate or priority · CPC title