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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nitin Singh, Fremont, CA (US);

Ryan Bickhart, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kaliraj Vairavakkalai, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Network, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 12/4679 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/2069 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed method may include (1) identifying a customer edge router that is multi-homed to a provider edge router and another provider edge router, (2) determining, by the provider edge router, that the other provider edge router has identified an Internet Protocol address of the customer edge router by way of an Address Resolution Protocol, (3) learning, by the provider edge router, the Internet Protocol address of the customer edge router from the other provider edge router, and then (4) advertising, by the provider edge router to at least one gateway of at least one other customer edge router, a route that facilitates communication with the customer edge router via the provider edge router based at least in part on the Internet Protocol address of the customer edge router. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed.


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