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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pritam Baruah, Fremont, CA (US);
Satish Mahadevan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Avinash Shah, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Sanjay Sreenath, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described herein for providing bi-directional path selection based on indicated path preferences in policy data. Such techniques may be performed by a network node and may comprise generating a set of paths to a destination, a first path of the set of paths being labeled as a direct path and a second path of the set of paths being labeled as an indirect path. Such techniques may subsequently comprise receiving a communication from a source and directed to the destination, determining, based on a first indicated path preference for the destination and a second indicated path preference for the source, a path category, selecting a forwarding path as one of the first path or the second path based on the determined path category, and routing the communication to a next hop in the selected forwarding path.