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Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Henry Kwok, Fremont, CA (US);

Songqiao Su, Fremont, CA (US);

Petr V. Lapukhov, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/743 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01);
Abstract

A specification of network paths between a group of computer network routers is received and possible route paths between routers of the group of computer network routers are determined. A unique identifier is assigned to each route path of the possible route paths. A preferred route path of network traffic between a source computer network router and a destination computer network router among the group of computer network routers is determined and the unique identifier assigned to the preferred route path is identified. A specification of the identified unique identifier and a specification of at least a portion of the preferred route path that corresponds to the identified unique identifier are provided to at least the computer network routers in the preferred route path.


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