The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Ashutosh Bisht, Bangalore, IN;
Faseela K, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/79 (2013.01); H04L 43/028 (2022.01); H04L 43/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 12/109 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/79 (2013.01); H04L 43/028 (2013.01); H04L 43/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 12/109 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is implemented by a network device to reduce bandwidth and compute resources needed by the controller of a software defined networking (SDN) controller by distributing monitoring of virtual network functions (VNFs) to data plane nodes (DPNs) in a SDN network. The method includes receiving a monitoring request from the SDN controller to monitor a VNF, receiving a byte sequence from the SDN controller for the VNF, and generating flow table entries for monitoring the VNF by matching the byte sequence with monitoring response messages from the VNF.