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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jayaraman Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhong Wang, Danville, CA (US);
Bhaswati Deka Talukdar, Fremont, CA (US);
Pradheep Shrinivasan, Austin, TX (US);
Samir Dilipkumar Saklikar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for heterogenous network services using platform agnostic extensions. A method includes: instantiating a first service having a first data plane control point; instantiating a second service configured to access the first control point in a data plane; receiving a first packet at the first service in a network path; providing at least one of the first packet and first metadata associated with the first packet to the second service to analyze or process the first packet and the first metadata in conjunction with the first service; processing at least one of the first packet or the first metadata in the second service based on external bytecode and generating at least second metadata based on the processing; receiving second metadata to the first service; and processing the first packet or a second packet.