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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Pankaj Garg, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew J. Ritz, Sammamish, WA (US);
Stephen E. Bensley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Praveen Balasubramanian, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In a network virtualization system, metadata is passed in an encapsulation header from one network virtualization edge to another network virtualization edge or to a service connected to a network virtualization edge. The metadata may carry packet processing instructions, diagnostic information, hop-specific information, or a packet identifier. Using the metadata information in the packet header, the datacenter network may provide services such as remote segmentation offload, small packet coalescing, transparent packet compression, and end-to-end packet tracing.