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- Patent Title: Supporting programmability for arbitrary events in a software defined networking environment
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Application No.: US13838719Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US10397073B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Jason Pfeifer , Richard M. Pruss , John E. McDowall
- 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: Patterson + Sheridan LLP
- Main IPC: H04W4/20
- IPC: H04W4/20 ; H04W4/50 ; H04L12/26

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for using arbitrary criteria to define events occurring within a network infrastructure, as well and techniques for detecting and responding to the occurrence of such custom events. Doing so allows a collection of networking elements (switches, routers, etc.) to perform a variety of distributed functions from within the network itself to respond to custom events. Further, because custom events are published across the network, multiple network elements can communicate and respond to the same event. Thus, unlike currently available event management systems, custom events (and responding applications) can be used to create and coordinate software defined networking within a common network infrastructure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140280893A1 SUPPORTING PROGRAMMABILITY FOR ARBITRARY EVENTS IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING ENVIRONMNET Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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