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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 49/15 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication system, comprises: a first network switch that transmits to a network controller a control message containing ancillary data; the network controller that retrieves the ancillary data from the control message containing the ancillary data, holds the ancillary data, and transmits to a second network switch a control message containing the ancillary data; and the second network switch that receives the control message containing the ancillary data from the network controller, retrieves a packet to be outputted and the ancillary data, and forwards the packet and the ancillary data to a specified destination.