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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2018
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/70 (2013.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/5602 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0066 (2013.01); H04L 1/1664 (2013.01); H04L 43/022 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5625 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5652 (2013.01); H04L 2012/5672 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0064 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for performing in-band operations, administration, and management (OAM) using fixed bytes. According to one aspect, data packets are selected from a packet flow according to a sampling rate. A network device's OAM information is inserted into a fixed length field of each selected packet as a selected packet is processed by the network device.