Model Driven Service State Machine Linkage for Multi-Provider Network Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Different network service providers and cloud providers use proprietary network state schemas, making it difficult for customers to view, control, or manage their subscribed networks and resources across multiple providers using a single user interface, due to inconsistencies in equipment and resource definitions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a model-driven service state machine linkage methodology that establishes a common network resource state schema across disparate networks, allowing for the creation of a unified user interface to manage and control network resources by determining and negotiating a common schema version, analyzing network states, and generating consistent state information for display and configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary network state schemas are used by different network service providers, then each provider can maintain its own equipment and resource definitions, but customers cannot view or manage their subscribed networks and resources across multiple providers using a single user interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a common network resource state schema as an intermediary layer between different proprietary network state schemas. This mediator enables translation and harmonization of state information from multiple network providers into a unified format that can be displayed and managed through a single user interface, resolving the contradiction between multi-provider adaptability and system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal network resource state schema that can represent and manage resources from multiple different network providers through a common framework. This universal schema enables a single user interface to perform multiple functions including viewing, controlling, and managing diverse network resources across different providers without requiring separate interfaces for each provider
2Ease of operation
If a common network resource state schema is implemented across disparate networks, then a unified user interface can be created to manage network resources, but complexity increases in determining and negotiating schema versions between different providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs schema version determination and negotiation as a preliminary action before implementing the unified network resource management. By establishing the common schema version upfront through negotiation between network providers, the system avoids the complexity of dynamic version resolution during operation, enabling a simplified single user interface for network management
3Ease of operation
If proprietary network state schemas are used by different providers, then each provider maintains independence, but customers cannot easily control or change usage, parameters, and settings of their subscribed networks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a copied or replicated representation of network resource states from different proprietary schemas into a common network resource state schema. This copying process enables the unified user interface to access and control network resources from multiple providers through a consistent format, providing ease of operation while maintaining interoperability through the standardized state representation
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AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing model driven service state machine linkage functionality amongst different machines and/or networks. In some embodiments, a computing system of a first network associated with a first entity might establish a communication link with a node of a second network associated with a second entity. The computing system might determine whether there is a common network resource state schema between the two networks, and, if so, might identify available versions, then negotiate which version to use as common version. The computing system might retrieve network state information for the two networks, might generate a user interface that incorporates and presents the network state information for the two disparate networks consistent with the common version of the common schema, and might send the user interface to a user device of a user for display of the network state information of the two disparate networks.