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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:
Aug. 02, 2022

Filed:

May. 27, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Riaz Khan, Milpitas, CA (US);

Atri Indiresan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0816 (2022.01); H04L 41/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/0604 (2022.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); H04L 43/50 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/28 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); G06F 11/3656 (2013.01); G06F 11/3664 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 41/0627 (2013.01); H04L 41/0886 (2013.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exemplary method is disclosed that facilitate the on-demand creation of an exemplary instrumented network device in a cloud infrastructure, remote server, evaluation platform, or customized testing server and to form a stack between the instrumented network device as a debug network device and a target network device. The control plane of the target network device then switches over, via a switchover operation, to the control plane of the debug network device, while the data-plane of the target network device continues to operate. Once switched over, the instrumentation (e.g., hardware or software) of the control plane or debug network device facilitates the debug, optimization, profile, and/or recovery of the physical network device, even in a live network.


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