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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:
Oct. 12, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2018
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ed Warnicke, Austin, TX (US);

William Mark Townsley, Paris, FR;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); H04L 67/1021 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/2814 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a method comprises, in response to receiving a packet that is associated with initiating a client-server session, transmitting a workload request to a workload orchestrator; the workload orchestrator selecting a selected server, from among a plurality of available geographically or logically distributed servers in network edge computing nodes, to process the client-server session; the workload orchestrator transmitting a request to the selected server to create a workload to process the client-server session; receiving, from the workload orchestrator, data identifying the selected server; forwarding one or more other packets associated with the same client-server session to the selected server; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.


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