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Patent No.:

US 11792112 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2020

Using service planes to perform 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);

Elton Furtado, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

ADELI LLP

Primary Examiner:

Tonia L Dollinger

Assistant Examiner:

Linh T Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 67/146 (2022.01); 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 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 67/51 (2022.05); H04L 67/563 (2022.05); H04L 67/63 (2022.05); H04L 47/825 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide novel methods for providing a set of services for a logical network associated with an edge forwarding element acting between a logical network and an external network. In some embodiments, the services are provided using a logical service forwarding plane that connects the edge forwarding element to a set of service nodes that each provide a service in the set of services. The service classification operation of some embodiments identifies a chain of multiple service operations that has to be performed on the data message. In some embodiments, identifying the chain of service operations includes selecting a service path to provide the multiple services. After selecting the service path, the data message is sent along the selected service path to have the services provided. The data message is returned to the edge forwarding element by a last service node in the service path that performs the last service operation and the edge forwarding element performs next hop forwarding on the data message.

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