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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2003
Applicant:
Andrew Mcrae, Berowra, AU;
Inventor:
Andrew McRae, Berowra, AU;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A software-implemented switching path includes separate control and data planes with the data plane having a graph of feature nodes with each node implementing a feature to be applied to a packet being switched. Each feature node includes private data and code which are utilized to apply the feature to the packet. The packet is switched to a next node based on packet-specific context data.