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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Don Fedyk, Andover, MA (US);
Paul Allen Bottorff, Roseville, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 41/5041 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 61/25 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01); H04L 67/1004 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some examples herein disclose a load balancer to identify a service function among multiple service functions based on an available capacity. The load balancer modifies a switch address in the packet and distributes the packet to the identified service function based on the modified switch address.