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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2023
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Erin C. Macneil, Carp, CA;
Amit Kumar Rao, Ontario, CA;
Hariprasad Shanmugam, Kanata, CA;
Thomas Alexander, Palo Alto, VA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A network device identifies, using a daemon of a userspace of the network device, a packet, and processes, using the daemon, the packet to determine metadata associated with the packet. The network device stores, using the daemon, the metadata and a key value in a data structure. The network device provides, using the daemon, the packet to a kernel of the network device via a virtual interface between the userspace and the kernel, which allows the network device, when using the kernel, to process the packet and to provide the packet to an application of the userspace via a socket. Storing the metadata and the key value in the data structure allows the network device, when using the application of the userspace, to retrieve the metadata from the data structure based on receiving the packet from the kernel via the socket.
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