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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
May. 23, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sebastian Jeuk, San Jose, CA (US);
Gonzalo Salgueiro, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a forwarding node of a Service Function Chain ('SFC')-enabled network a packet having a packet header including at least one context header comprising metadata information for the packet, wherein the metadata information comprises price information indicative of a value of a traffic flow of which the packet comprises a part; identifying based on the metadata information and at least one of network state and environmental information a Virtual Network Function ('vNF') to which to forward the packet for processing; and forwarding the packet to the identified vNF for processing.