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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:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Versa Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akshay Adhikari, San Jose, CA (US);

Amey Gavand, San Jose, CA (US);

Sridhar Vishwanathan Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);

Apurva Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Versa Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01); H04L 12/747 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/123 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 45/14 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/70 (2013.01); H04L 45/742 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments herein disclose methods for selecting one or more paths for routing application traffic based on application performance metrics for hosted applications. In an embodiment, to select the best path, the available paths can be monitored to understand the performance of specific applications through those paths. Subsequently, the performance data is used to derive an application link score (ALS) for any given combination of application and path. The ALS is then be used to determine the best path for a given application.


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