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Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2012
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Wenge Chen, Austin, TX (US);

Holly Chen, San Ramon, CA (US);

Kuo-Hui Liu, San Ramon, CA (US);

Shih Chung Soon, Dublin, CA (US);

Bei Zhou, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 41/0883 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of automatically determining a set of route targets is provided. The method includes receiving network topology data specifying configuration of a network. The method also includes automatically converting the network topology data into route targets to be assigned to virtual routing and forwarding elements. The route targets are grouped into sets and duplicate sets of route targets are removed. The method further includes generating a data record including information related to the set of route targets.


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