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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:
Jan. 31, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2019
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pankaj Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Prabhu Raj V. K., Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0805 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 69/324 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0805 (2013.01); H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 69/324 (2013.01);
Abstract

A provider edge (PE) device may receive traffic associated with one or more services, wherein the traffic includes a plurality of packets, and may determine, based on the plurality of packets, one or more packets respectively associated with each service of the one or more services. The PE device may determine, based on the one or more packets respectively associated with each service of the one or more services, a respective status of each of the one or more services. The PE device may generate type-length-value (TLV) data that indicates the respective status of each of the one or more services and may cause the TLV data to be added to a link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) packet. The PE device may send the LLDP packet that includes the added TLV data to a customer edge (CE) device.


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