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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2010
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Van L. Jacobson, Woodside, CA (US);
Diana K. Smetters, Belmont, CA (US);
James D. Thornton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Van L. Jacobson, Woodside, CA (US);
Diana K. Smetters, Belmont, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating network service virtualization. During operation, the system receives a service request from a client, and initializes a communication session with the client. The system constructs an interest using session state information that can identify the client and/or a previous communication session. The interest comprises a hierarchically structured variable-length name. The system then broadcasts the interest to a number of servers. The system subsequently forwards to the client data received from a server which responds first to the interest.