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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arul Murugan Manickam, San Jose, CA (US);
Avinash Shah, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, San Ramon, CA (US);
Satyajit Das, Lake Tapps, WA (US);
Deepa Rajendra Sangolli, San Jose, CA (US);
Govindakrishnan Kannan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pritam Baruah, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving traffic and identifying one or more attributes associated with the traffic. The method also includes dynamically selecting a load balancing algorithm based on the one or more attributes in accordance with a load balancing scheme. The method further includes performing load balancing on the traffic in accordance with the load balancing algorithm and communicating the traffic from a first network element to a second network element in accordance with the load balancing.