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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael A. Ramalho, Lakewood Ranch, FL (US);
Jon M. Snyder, Portland, OR (US);
Kashyap Kodanda Ram Kambhatla, San Jose, CA (US);
Pal-Erik Martinsen, As, NO;
Wai-tian Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul Edwin Jones, Apex, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a first node in a communications network a message associated with a first flow, wherein the message comprises a flow treatment attribute including metadata indicative of how the first flow should be treated in the network; analyzing the flow treatment attribute at the first node; setting policy for treatment of the flow in the network based on the analyzing; and forwarding the message to a next network node.