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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US);
Lukas Krattiger, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Wing Hon Yeung, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Uffaz Nathaniel, Northampton, PA (US);
Richard Lam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04L 41/0856 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01);
Abstract
Presented herein are techniques for actively monitoring, at a network controller, a network location of an endpoint connected to the network based on control plane updates. The network controller is configured to archive the network location of the endpoint, along with local information for the endpoint, in an endpoint tracking database of the network controller.