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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
David E. Mcdysan, Great Falls, VA (US);
Stevan H. Leiden, Norwood, MA (US);
Douglas M. Pasko, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
John E. Rathke, Southborough, MA (US);
David E. McDysan, Great Falls, VA (US);
Stevan H. Leiden, Norwood, MA (US);
Douglas M. Pasko, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
John E. Rathke, Southborough, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device receives, from feature peers associated with a network, information associated with the feature peers, receives a customer packet, and determines, based on the feature peer information, which of the feature peers support a feature associated with the customer packet. The device also selects, from the determined feature peers, a set of feature peers for the customer packet to traverse, attaches a feature header to the customer packet to create a modified customer packet, and forwards, based on the feature header, the modified customer packet to one of the feature peers in the selected set of feature peers.