MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202511004774 A) filed by Rakuten Mobile, Inc. on January 21, 2025, for Decoupled Service Management And Orchestration Service Architecture In An Open Radio Access Network.
Inventors include Sun, Kexuan; and Bajpai, Anurag.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure describe a method for decoupling Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN). The method includes configuring one or more interfaces and services for a plurality of modules associated with the SMO and an Open Radio Access Network Cloud (O- Cloud). The plurality of modules comprises an operator User Interface (UI) module, one or more SMO Services (SMOS) modules, a Service Orchestration (SO) SMOS module, a higher layer SMOS module, an Application Software Package Onboarding SMOS module, a Federated O-Cloud Orchestration and Management (FOCOM) SMOS module, and a Network Function Orchestrator (NFO) SMOS module. The method further includes establishing, based on the one or more configured interfaces and services, an End-to-End (E2E) service flow between the plurality of modules and the O-Cloud in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture.
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