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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:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Satyam Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Smita Rai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kit Chiu Chu, Fremont, CA (US);

Ashutosh Agrawal, Fremont, CA (US);

Wanli Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ravikanth Nasika, Fremont, CA (US);

Thomas J. Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Geetha Anandakrishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the embodiments include receiving a packet at a network element of a packet-switched network; identifying a presence of a shared service destination address in a header of the packet; identifying a shared service destination address for the packet based, at least in part, on a destination internet protocol (IP) address stored in a forward information base; and forwarding the packet to the shared service destination address.


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