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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:
Nov. 20, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Vachuska, Roseville, CA (US);

Simon Hunt, Roseville, CA (US);

Uyen Chau, Roseville, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01); H04W 72/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 47/2433 (2013.01); H04W 72/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Prioritizing at least one flow class for an application on a software defined networking (SDN) controller includes registering flow classes for an application with a SDN controller, determining, with the SDN controller, a priority for each of the flow classes based on other installed applications and network services on the SDN controller, receiving, from the application, at least one flow modification rule using a priority key as the priority, and validating the at least one flow modification rule against registered parameters of at least one of the flow classes of the application to determine a flow of traffic based on the priority.


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