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Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2021
Applicant:

Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);

Inventors:

Stewart Bamford, London, GB;

Brent Wharton Smith, Arvada, CO (US);

Noah Kipling Weis, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/741 (2022.01); H04L 45/30 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/3065 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/741 (2013.01);
Abstract

A routing system can provide a Dynamic-Hybrid Forwarding Information Base (DHFIB). A control component of the routing system can build a routing table that includes routing information (e.g., prefixes, addresses, etc.) for use by a first routing component. The routing table can be ordered or ranked based on traffic information from the first routing component. Then, the control component can create the DHFIB from the routing table, wherein the DHFIB is a portion of the routing table and related to the first routing component. As such, the portion of the routing table selected for the DHFIB can be the set of prefixes in the routing table that represent the most frequently routed or most important prefixes in the routing table. Finally, the control component can forward the DHFIB to the first routing component to allow the routing component to route communications.


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