US Patent 9762451 Network resource matching

According to an example, a service request may be received. A service template providing a service may be found according to type of the service in the service request. A resource zone matching the service template may be found from a resource pool. A network resource may be found from the resource zone matching the service template according to a network model role zone of a service unit in the service template. The network resource and the service unit belong to the same network model role zone and the network resource may match the service unit.