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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04L 47/283 (2022.01); H04L 47/34 (2022.01); H04L 47/31 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/283 (2013.01); H04L 47/31 (2013.01); H04L 47/34 (2013.01); H04W 28/065 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a load balancing method may comprise: assigning a plurality of packets of a flow to a plurality of segments according to a segmentation criterion, each segment including one or more packets of said plurality of packets, and at least one of the plurality of segments including more than one packet of the plurality of packets; tagging each packet of the plurality of packets with a segment sequence identifier to indicate to which segment the packet is assigned; and arranging the plurality of packets for transmission via an interconnect so that all packets belonging to a same segment will be transmitted via a same path.