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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventor:

Paul Allen Bottorff, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/755 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/021 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/0892 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples include receiving a rule for communication between a first group and a second group of endpoints in a network. The network may include a plurality of networking devices. Examples include receiving a first identifier for the first group and a second identifier and a network address for the second group, receiving composition data of the network. Examples also include determining a topology of the network comprising a first number of communication paths and determining a reduced topology based on the rule, the first identifier, and the second identifier. The first number of paths may link a first networking device out of the plurality of networking devices to each device of the plurality of the networking devices. The second number of paths may link the first networking device to the second group.


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