External injection of cloud based network functions into network services

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10326839
APP PUB NO 20170264686A1
SERIAL NO

15605643

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Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an API description of an external network service and using the API to integrate the external service into a network. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a service provider, a description of an application programming interface (API), transmitting a call to the service provider using the API for creating a new instance of a service and transmitting to the service provider a traffic flow upon which the service will be applied.

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  • LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC

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Sella, William Parker, US 8 15

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