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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:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Lin Han, San Jose, CA (US);

Yingzhen Qu, San Jose, CA (US);

Lijun Dong, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01); H04L 45/125 (2022.01); H04L 45/42 (2022.01); H04L 45/52 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method implemented by an end user device in a network, comprises transmitting user service expectation data to a network element (NE) in the network, the user service expectation data describing an expected network attribute of a path between the end user device and a destination, receiving path aware network data from the NE in response to transmitting the user service expectation data describing the expected network attribute to the NE, the path aware network data comprising a path index, path quality information, and data plane information, the path index identifying the path, the path quality information describing a network attribute supported by the NE on the path, and the data plane information comprising information associated with a protocol by which to transmit a data packet along the path, and transmitting the data packet along the path based on the data plane information.


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