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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:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kaustubh Inamdar, Bangalore, IN;

Ram Mohan Ravindranath, Bangalore, IN;

Vinay Kumar Dharmaraj, Bangalore, IN;

Gonzalo Salgueiro, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/1066 (2013.01); H04L 12/40176 (2013.01); H04L 12/40182 (2013.01); H04L 47/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/608 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a device in a network maintains a plurality of network paths for a media session. The device identifies a subset of data for the media session as requiring redundancy. The device sends a packet in the identified subset of data for the media session as redundant packets via two or more of the plurality of network paths for the media session. The device sends a particular packet outside of the identified subset of data for the media session non-redundantly via one of the plurality of network paths for the media session.


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