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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2006
Paul Quinn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth Durazzo, San Ramon, CA (US);
Darrel Lewis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barry Raveendran Greene, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul Quinn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth Durazzo, San Ramon, CA (US);
Darrel Lewis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barry Raveendran Greene, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for selectively applying a service to a packet in a network. In a specific embodiment, the system includes a mechanism for encoding service information in a network-compatible packet header and providing encoded data in response thereto. In a more specific embodiment, the network-compatible header includes a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) header, a Generic Route Encapsulation (GRE) header, and/or a Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) header.