US 11,838,176 B1
Provisioning and deploying RAN applications in a RAN system
Gauresh Dilip Vanjare, San Jose, CA (US); and Amit Singh, Woodside, CA (US)
Assigned to VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/101,546.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/433,757, filed on Dec. 19, 2022.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04L 41/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/28 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0803 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0886 (2013.01); H04L 41/28 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of automatically provisioning RAN (Radio Access Network) applications in a RAN system, the method comprising:
at a particular RIC (RAN intelligent controller) deployed in the RAN system:
receiving a description of a RAN application as a CR (custom resource), the RAN application to be deployed by the particular RIC;
parsing the CR and providing parsed data from the CR to a RIC management system (RMS), the parsed data comprising data defining the RAN application;
receiving, from the RMS, a set of data to validate for the RAN application along with a request to associate the RAN application with a datapath in the particular RIC to connect the RAN application to one or more base station components through the particular RIC; and
after receiving a command from the RMS to deploy the RAN application, deploying the RAN application.