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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raja Kommula, Cupertino, CA (US);

Kiran K N, Bangalore, IN;

Yuvaraja Mariappan, San Jose, CA (US);

Thayumanavan Sridhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Raj Yavatkar, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Vikram Singh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/12 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01); H04L 45/42 (2022.01); H04L 47/70 (2022.01); H04L 47/78 (2022.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/124 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/302 (2013.01); H04L 45/34 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 47/781 (2013.01); H04L 47/822 (2013.01); H04L 49/30 (2013.01); H04L 69/08 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method comprises, receiving resource availability values from the plurality of Network Interface Cards (NICs); determining a data path for data packets of a flow transported using a protocol from a source NIC to a destination NIC via a NIC set that comprises at least one NIC, wherein: the plurality of NICs comprises the source NIC, the destination NIC, and the NIC set, and determining the data path comprises selecting the NIC set based on the resource availability values; and transmitting, to the source NIC and to each NIC in the NIC set, data path data to cause the source NIC and each NIC in the NIC set to identify the data packets of the flow using an identifier of the protocol and to transmit the data packets of the flow from the source NIC to the destination NIC via the data path.


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