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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for secrets injection into containers for 5G network elements
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Application No.: US16940851Application Date: 2020-07-28
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Publication No.: US11340933B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: James Donald Reno , Michael Brown , Akshay Rajesh Baheti , Michael Cameron
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: NDWE LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F21/00 ; G06F21/12 ; G06F21/30 ; G06F21/44 ; H04W8/08 ; H04W12/122 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W80/10

Abstract:
A method and system for managing dynamic runtime information provision for a container implementing a Session Management Function (SMF) executed by an electronic device in a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) 5th Generation (5G) mobile network core. The method includes starting a container image load, the container image including at least a secret sub unit and an application sub unit, the application sub unit providing the SMF, determining an input source to provide a secret value for the container, the input source identified by information in the secret sub unit in the container image, and providing the secret value to a destination sub unit of the container.
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