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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Toerless Eckert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hongliang Gao, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/586 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 47/17 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network device is provided that comprises a plurality of physical ports, an autonomic device fabric (ADF) module configured to receive, send, and forward data packets via the plurality of physical ports, a memory that stores instructions, and one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise determining that network device software is not installed and requesting the network device software from a management machine using the ADF module.