Continuum Orchestrator for Heterogeneous Network Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional telephony systems face challenges in coordinating operations and capabilities across multiple heterogeneous networks, leading to inefficient and unreliable service delivery as they often lack full information about participating networks or components.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a continuum orchestrator that coordinates services and resources across multiple heterogeneous telecommunications domains by decomposing service requests, establishing closed feedback control loops, and synchronizing information and communications between domains to ensure efficient and profitable end-to-end service delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional telephony systems coordinate operations across multiple heterogeneous networks, then service delivery is achieved, but reliability and efficiency deteriorate due to lack of full information about participating networks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service coordination function (SCF) as an intermediary entity that mediates between multiple heterogeneous networks. The SCF collects information from network elements across different domains, maintains a unified view of network resources and capabilities, and coordinates service delivery without requiring direct peer-to-peer communication between heterogeneous networks. This intermediary approach resolves the information asymmetry problem while maintaining service reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The service coordination function is designed as a universal platform that can handle multiple types of networks and service requests simultaneously. It provides a common interface and coordination mechanism that works across diverse network types (telephony, data, messaging, etc.), enabling the system to maintain full information about participating networks regardless of their heterogeneity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If services are delivered across multiple heterogeneous domains, then service coverage is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex multi-domain service delivery system into distinct functional components: network elements within individual domains, domain-specific service access points, and a central service coordination function. Each segment operates with defined responsibilities and interfaces, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining broad service coverage across heterogeneous domains.
Solution Approach 2:
The service coordination function serves as a universal intermediary that simplifies interactions between diverse domains. Rather than requiring each domain to directly communicate with every other domain (which would create exponential complexity), the SCF provides a single point of coordination that manages all cross-domain service requests, thereby enabling broad adaptability without proportional increases in system complexity.
3Measurement precision
If information is collected from multiple telecommunications domains, then service coordination accuracy is improved, but information processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service coordination function performs preliminary actions by proactively collecting and caching information from network elements across multiple domains before service requests are made. This advance information gathering reduces the time required to process coordination requests, as the SCF already possesses relevant network state information rather than needing to query all domains in real-time during service delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where network elements report their state and capability information to the service coordination function continuously or periodically. This feedback loop enables the SCF to maintain an up-to-date view of network conditions across domains, improving coordination accuracy while reducing the need for repeated information collection during service operations.
Data Source
AI summary
The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems for controlling services across multiple heterogeneous networks by collecting communication information from a plurality of telecommunications domains, generating a message based on the collected communication information, and sending the generated message to a public interface of a telecommunications domain to alter the functionality of the telecommunications domain component. The generated message may include information for altering a functionality of a telecommunications domain component. Generating a message based on the collected communication information may include crowd sourcing the collected information, which may include summing, averaging, aggregating, comparing and/or correlating the collected information.