Patents by Inventor Frederic Lardeux

Frederic Lardeux has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Virtualized network function deployment
    Patent number: 11237862
    Abstract: A method for deploying virtualized network functions (VNFs) as virtualized implementations of logical network devices in a virtualized computing environment for providing network services, the method including determining a VNF deployment plan including a specification, for each point in time over a planning period, of zero or more VNF instances to be released at the point in time and zero or more VNF instances to be deployed at the point in time, wherein the deployment plan is determined by an optimization function based on: a constraint on a number of VNFs in all states of undeployed, being deployed, deployed and being release; constraints based on a demand for VNFs defined by characteristics of the VNFs and the virtualized computing environment; and constraints based on a capacity of the virtualized computing environment to accommodate a resource consumption of the VNFs, and wherein the optimization function is configured to minimize one or more of: a number of VNFs in a deployed state; and a resource cost
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Anne Linet, Gilbert Owusu, Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder, David Lesaint, Pierre Desport, Frederic Lardeux
  • VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT
    Publication number: 20210103456
    Abstract: A method for deploying virtualized network functions (VNFs) as virtualized implementations of logical network devices in a virtualized computing environment for providing network services, the method including determining a VNF deployment plan including a specification, for each point in time over a planning period, of zero or more VNF instances to be released at the point in time and zero or more VNF instances to be deployed at the point in time, wherein the deployment plan is determined by an optimization function based on: a constraint on a number of VNFs in all states of undeployed, being deployed, deployed and being release; constraints based on a demand for VNFs defined by characteristics of the VNFs and the virtualized computing environment; and constraints based on a capacity of the virtualized computing environment to accommodate a resource consumption of the VNFs, and wherein the optimization function is configured to minimize one or more of: a number of VNFs in a deployed state; and a resource cost
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Anne Linet, Gilbert Owusu, Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder, David Lesaint, Pierre Desport, Frederic Lardeux