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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Paul Bottorff, Roseville, CA (US);
Donald Fedyk, Littleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04L 12/70 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 12/56 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5625 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5685 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some examples herein disclose identifying a service function chain based on a switch address from a packet. The examples disclose modifying the switch address to an address corresponding to a service function based on the identified service function chain. The examples also disclose forwarding the packet to the service function according to the modified switch address.