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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Gregory Irving Thiel, Black Diamond, WA (US);
Konstantin E. Ryvkin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy Mark Moore, Bellevue, WA (US);
Todd Carlyle Luttinen, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for directing network traffic includes, at a network device, receiving network traffic provided by one or more client computing devices. The network device directs the network traffic to a service entity over a first network path. A path quality indicator is received that indicates whether the network traffic directed over the first network path satisfies one or more experience criteria. Based at least on the path quality indicator indicating that the network traffic directed over the first network path does not satisfy the one or more experience criteria, the network device redirects some or all of the network traffic to the service entity over a second network path.