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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2007
Applicant:
Subramanian Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Subramanian Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, one or more network devices located on a call path for packets destined to a server running applications examines payloads included in the packets to associate different ones of the packets to different ones of the applications. Information about the packets and the associations are used to determine which ones of the applications conform to their respective Service Level Agreements (SLAs).