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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
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 communicates with feature peers, associated with a network, to obtain information associated with the feature peers, and receives a customer packet that includes a feature header. The device also modifies, based on the feature peer information, current condition state signaling, and other information, the feature header to create a modified customer packet, and determines, based on the feature peer information, the current condition state signaling, and the other information, which of the feature peers support a feature associated with the modified customer packet. The device further selects, from the determined feature peers, a set of feature peers for the modified customer packet to traverse, and forwards, based on the modified feature header, the modified customer packet to one of the feature peers in the selected set of feature peers.