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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2022
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Jagwinder Singh Brar, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Dale Becker, Seattle, WA (US);
Jacob Robert Uecker, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Lukasz Sulek, Seattle, WA (US);
Marcin Jakub Zablocki, Seattle, WA (US);
Santosh Narayan Shilimkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Discussed herein is a framework that provisions for customized processing for different classes of traffic. A network device in a communication path between a source host machine and a destination host machine extracts a tag from a packet received by the network device. The packet originates at a source executing on the source host machine and whose destination is the destination host machine. The tag set by the source and indicative of a first traffic class to be associated with the packet, the first traffic class being selected by the source from a plurality of traffic classes. The network device determines the first traffic class based on the tag extracted from the packet and processes the packet based on the first traffic class.