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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2024
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jie Zheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hongbin Lu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtualized network function (VNF) of a network function virtualization (NFV) link level architecture includes a management plane function (MPF) to map a logical interface as a virtual interface in a control plane function (CPF) of the VNF. The MPF maps a logical resource of the NFV virtualization link level architecture as a shadow resource on one or more data plane functions (DPFs) of the VNF, wherein a virtual link is formed by the logical interface, the shadow resource, and the virtual interface. One of the DPFs receives a packet over the virtual link from a switch and classifies a type of the packet. In response to the packet type being a data packet, the DPF aggregates the packet with other data packets to form aggregated data packets and sends the aggregated data packets to the switch.