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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:
Mar. 24, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2017
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pradeep Patel, Fremont, CA (US);

Jianxin Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Jonathan Augustine Kunder, San Jose, CA (US);

Ashish Dey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/161 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 47/127 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/566 (2013.01); H04L 2012/6443 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one example, a service function forwarder of a service function chain enabled domain receives, from a classifier of the service function chain enabled domain, network traffic assigned to a service function path that includes at least one service node configured to apply a service function to the network traffic. The service function forwarder forwards the network traffic along the service function path. The service function forwarder receives, from the at least one service node, instructions for dynamically assigning a particular service function path to predicted network traffic that the at least one service node predicts will be triggered by the network traffic. The service function forwarder forwards the instructions to the classifier.


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