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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:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2017
Applicant:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Young Lee, Plano, TX (US);

James N. Guichard, Hollis, NH (US);

Dhruv Dhody, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of establishing an end-to-end tunnel for a virtual network extending across multiple domains using a first network controller element managing a first domain is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a second network controller element managing the first network controller element for an intra-domain locally-learned tunnel identifier (LLTI), sending an instruction to an egress network element of the first domain to generate the intra-domain LLTI in accordance with the request, receiving the intra-domain LLTI from the egress network element in accordance with the instruction, and sending the intra-domain LLTI to an ingress network element of the first domain. A method of establishing an end-to-end tunnel for a virtual network extending across multiple domains using an inter-domain LLTI is provided.


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