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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
David John Zacks, Vancouver, CA;
Dmitry Goloubev, Waterloo, BE;
Zizhen Gao, San Ramon, CA (US);
Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US);
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods are provided for predictive policy enforcement using encapsulated metadata. The methods involve obtaining a packet of an encapsulated traffic flow that is transported in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) or in a cloud network. The packet includes a network virtualization tunneling header with an appended service plane protocol header and a payload. The methods further involve extracting, from the appended service plane protocol header, without performing deep packet inspection, enriched metadata that includes fields for one or more attributes related to a source of the packet or a destination of the packet, determining at least one network policy based on the enriched metadata, and applying, to the packet, the at least one network policy that relates to gathering analytics and/or transporting the encapsulated traffic flow to the destination.
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