Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, medium, and apparatus for inserting a placeholder service function
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Application No.: US16170175Application Date: 2018-10-25
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Publication No.: US10708178B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Reinaldo Penno , Carlos M. Pignataro , Paul Quinn , Hung The Chau , Chui-Tin Yen , Vivek Kansal , Jianxin Wang , Kent K. Leung
- 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
- Main IPC: H04L12/721
- IPC: H04L12/721 ; H04L12/801 ; H04L12/715 ; H04L12/703 ; H04L12/911 ; H04L12/851
Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to receiving an original packet at a service function; determining, for a reverse packet, a reverse service path identifier for a previous hop on a service function chain; determining, for the reverse packet, a service index for the reverse service path identifier; and transmitting the reverse packet to the previous hop on the service function chain.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190068490A1 Generating Packets in a Reverse Direction of a Service Function Chain Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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