Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Handling multipath flows in service function chaining
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Application No.: US15013027Application Date: 2016-02-02
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Publication No.: US10050870B2Publication Date: 2018-08-14
- Inventor: K. Tirumaleswar Reddy , Prashanth Patil , Daniel G. Wing , James Neil Guichard
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L12/707
- IPC: H04L12/707 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/801

Abstract:
A service classifier network device receives a subflow and identifies that the subflow is one of at least two subflows in a multipath data flow. Related data packets are sent from a source node to a destination node in the multipath data flow. The service classifier generates a multipath flow identifier and encapsulates the subflow with a header to produce an encapsulated first subflow. The header identifies a service function path and includes metadata with the multipath flow identifier.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170222917A1 HANDLING MULTIPATH FLOWS IN SERVICE FUNCTION CHAINING Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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