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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2013
Nec Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunobu Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Kazushi Sugyou, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication system includes a plurality of control apparatuses that determine a packet handling operation; a plurality of packet processing units that process packets in accordance with the packet handling operation notified by the control apparatus; an assignment unit that assigns, with respect to each of the packet processing unit, a control apparatus that controls the packet processing unit concerned; and a database that is shared by the plurality of control apparatuses and that stores information related to the packet handling operation; wherein each of the control apparatuses refers to the database to determine the packet handling operation.