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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:
Apr. 09, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Seraphin Calo, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Douglas Freimuth, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Thai V. Le, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Christian Makaya, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Erich Nahum, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Maroun Touma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Dinesh Verma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/142 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network function modification method, system, and computer program product, include terminating the connection-oriented session between a client and a server via at least two proxies, running a multipath connection-oriented session between the at least two proxies, if an insertion request is received, establishing a first multipath subflow with the new multipath subflow traversing the network function of the insertion request, and if a removal request is received, establishing a second multipath subflow with the new multipath subflow not traversing the network function of the removal request.


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