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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 11743172 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2020

Using multiple transport mechanisms to provide services at the edge of a network

Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pierluigi Rolando, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);

Raju Koganty, San Jose, CA (US);

Kantesh Mundaragi, Pune, IN;

Yuxiao Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rahul Mishra, Mountain View, CA (US);

Akhila Naveen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:

ADELI LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jackie Zuniga Abad

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 47/2441 (2022.01); H04L 67/142 (2022.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/745 (2022.01); H04L 47/2408 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04L 49/20 (2022.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/1004 (2022.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 67/146 (2022.01); H04L 41/0654 (2022.01); H04L 45/30 (2022.01); H04L 45/741 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04L 67/63 (2022.01); H04L 67/563 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4662 (2013.01); H04L 41/0654 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/30 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/741 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/2408 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 49/20 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/164 (2013.01); H04L 63/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/1004 (2013.01); H04L 67/142 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.05); H04L 67/563 (2022.05); H04L 67/63 (2022.05); H04L 47/825 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide novel methods for providing different types of services for a logical network associated with an edge forwarding element acting between the logical network and an external network. The edge forwarding element receives data messages for forwarding and performs a service classification operation to select a set of services of a particular type for the data message. The particular type of service is one of multiple types of services that use different transport mechanisms to forward the data to a set of service nodes (e.g., service virtual machines, or service appliances, etc.) that provide the service. The edge forwarding element receives the data message after the selected set of services has been performed and performs a forwarding operation to forward the data message. In some embodiments, the method is also performed by edge forwarding elements that are at the edges of logical network segments within the logical network.

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