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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Zte Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, CN;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/0853 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04L 47/2425 (2013.01); H04L 69/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reporting a feature of an OpenFlow switch are provided. The method includes: when the OpenFlow switch learns that an OpenFlow controller needs to query for port information, reporting port group identifiers of port groups, to which each port of the OpenFlow switch or each port to be queried by the OpenFlow controller belongs, to the OpenFlow controller, herein the port groups are obtained by grouping ports with different features in the OpenFlow switch based on one or more feature types, and each of the port groups has a port group identifier.