Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including selecting a second network slice, according to first information and a first characteristic of a first service associated with a communication device. The first network slice is directed to route a first portion of user plane traffic between the communication device and the second network slice, while retaining a second portion according to a second characteristic of the first service. The first network slice retains control plane processing for the communication device. The second network slice is directed to facilitate providing the first service via the first portion of the user plane traffic. Anticipated resource usage information associated with the second network slice is determined and a first virtual network function is instantiated at the second network slice according to the anticipated resource usage information associated with the second network slice. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method and system for providing access to Quality of Service levels from within a network to entities outside of the network.

Systems and methods for capturing and monitoring the health, safety, and/or activity of a user are described. In one aspect, the system generates a data usage pattern for the user and monitors the user's current data usage activity to detect data usage deviations from the user's usage pattern. When a deviation is detected, the system may send an alert message to the user or another user indicating that an anomaly may have occurred, permitting the user or another user to respond to the anomaly.

Wireless data network access architecture and methods enabling location-specific and/or user-specific provision of services or resources. In one embodiment, an end-user device makes a request for service within a wireless LAN (WLAN). A wireless access point (WAP) controller/policy server determines whether the user device meets criteria for a first user status or a second user status, and assigns the appropriate status to an identifier of the end-user device. When the user device is assigned the first user status, the user device is provided network access according to e.g., a first permissible bandwidth allocation. Otherwise, the user device is provided network access according to a second, different bandwidth allocation. The first and second user status may be assigned based on a location of the user device within e.g., a venue, a class of end-user device, end user application, an access pass associated with the user device, or yet other criteria.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including selecting a second network slice, according to first information and a first characteristic of a first service associated with a communication device. The first network slice is directed to route a first portion of user plane traffic between the communication device and the second network slice, while retaining a second portion according to a second characteristic of the first service. The first network slice retains control plane processing for the communication device. The second network slice is directed to facilitate providing the first service via the first portion of the user plane traffic. Anticipated resource usage information associated with the second network slice is determined and a first virtual network function is instantiated at the second network slice according to the anticipated resource usage information associated with the second network slice. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method and an orchestration server for packet data network service slicing over a network infrastructure for real-time IP services are provided. The method comprises providing an orchestration server that has knowledge of a whole connectivity status of a network infrastructure and that is configured to manage service nodes. The server receives a session request for a real-time IP service from a UE device located in a given region and requests to one or more service nodes of said given region whether it has/they have network resources. Each of the one or more service nodes compute a QoS measurement thereof in terms of KPIs including latency, jitter and bandwidth, the QoS measurement being computed by a software module that is implemented on a virtual machine deployed on the service node; and tag a plurality of interfaces. The orchestration server selects a given service node in view of said QoS measurement.

A selection indicative of one or more types of information associated with a product or service is received by a computing device of a digital services framework. A data container is generated for a content package comprising one or more semantics for populating the content package with the selected types of information. Based on the product or service, one or more recipients for the content package are identified. An announcement indicative of the content package is sent to the identified recipients. Requests for subscriptions to the content package identified recipients are received. Instances of the container are populated for identified recipients who have subscribed to the content package. The populating comprises populating the content package with the selected types of information based on the one or more semantics. The populated instances of the content package are sent to the subscribed recipients.

Implementations offload visual frames from a client device to a gateway or edge device for processing. The client device can receive streaming visual frames and a request to process the visual frames using a data service. The client device can offload visual frames to a gateway or edge device preloaded with a resource that corresponds to the requested data service. After the gateway or edge device processes the visual frames using the resource, the processed visual frames can be returned to the client device. In implementations, the offload device and client device are situated in a network such that a latency for the offload communications supports real-time video display. A gateway device manager can locate a gateway connected to the client device, and resources can be deployed (or the gateway can be prepopulated) so that the device can perform gateway services and edge processing services for the client device.

Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. In certain systems and methods, access to a network such as a wireless network, can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the network. Moreover, access to a first service available over the network can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the first service. Various network resource can be allocated to the first service based at least upon the number of device access the first service.

A content delivery network (CDN) includes a plurality of CDN components including at least one CDN rendezvous mechanism and at least one control core. The CDN components are controlled by control core data from the at least one control core. Some CDN components obtain CDN resources including control core data from at least some other CDN components. The CDN components use the CDN rendezvous mechanism to select one or more CDN components from which to obtain CDN resources.