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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2010
Jim Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Brian Lance Hiltscher, Cary, NC (US);
Doron Oz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jim Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Cedell Adam Alexander, Jr., Durham, NC (US);
Brian Lance Hiltscher, Cary, NC (US);
Doron Oz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Packets are encapsulated and sent from a service node (e.g., packet switching device) using one or more services applied to a packet by an application node (e.g., a packet switching device and/or computing platform such as a Cisco ASR 1000) to generate a result, which is used by the service node to process packets of a flow of packets to which the packet belonged. An example of a service applied to a packet is a classification service, such as, but not limited to, using deep packet inspection on the packet to identify a classification result. The service node can, for example, use this classification result to process other packets in a same packet flow, such that all packets of a flow do not need to be, nor typically are, sent to an application node for processing.