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Patent No.:

US 11070476 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2019

Migration from a legacy network appliance to a network function virtualization (nfv) appliance

Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Patrick Connor, Beaverton, OR (US);

Andrey Chilikin, Limerick, IE;

Brendan Ryan, Limerick, IE;

Chris MacNamara, Limerick, IE;

John J. Browne, Limerick, IE;

Krishnamurthy Jambur Sathyanarayana, Limerick, IE;

Stephen Doyle, Ennis, IE;

Tomasz Kantecki, Ennis, IE;

Anthony Kelly, Limerick, IE;

Ciara Loftus, County Galway G, IE;

Fiona Trahe, Clarecastle, IE;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:

Compass IP Law PC

Primary Examiner:

Sai Ming Chan

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 8/76 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); G06F 8/76 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing device includes an appliance status table to store at least one of reliability and performance data for one or more network functions virtualization (NFV) appliances and one or more legacy network appliances. The computing device includes a load controller to configure an Internet Protocol (IP) filter rule to select a packet for which processing of the packet is to be migrated from a selected one of the one or more legacy network appliances to a selected one of the one or more NFV appliances, and to update the appliance status table with received at least one of reliability and performance data for the one or more legacy network appliances and the one or more NFV appliances. The computing device includes a packet distributor to receive the packet, to select one of the one or more NFV appliances based at least in part on the appliance status table, and to send the packet to the selected NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.

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