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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.

Patent No.:

US 11552885 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2020

Network system and routing method

Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masanori Takashima, Tokyo, JP;

Tomohiro Kase, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Shah M Rahman

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04L 45/52 (2022.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01); H04L 45/74 (2022.01); H04L 47/2483 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04L 45/52 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 45/72 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network system includes a communication apparatus, and a control apparatus configured to control the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a memory configured to store program instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive an address of a destination virtual machine from the control apparatus, receive a packet from a source virtual machine, identify, based on the address of the destination virtual machine corresponding to the received packet, an identifier of an edge node connected to the destination virtual machine, and add the identifier of the edge node to the received packet.

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