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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2012
Christopher J. Chase, Austin, TX (US);
Nicholas G. Duffield, Summit, NJ (US);
Albert G. Greenberg, Summit, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe, New Providence, NJ (US);
Neal Shackleton, Tierra Verde, FL (US);
Christopher J. Chase, Austin, TX (US);
Nicholas G. Duffield, Summit, NJ (US);
Albert G. Greenberg, Summit, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Jacobus E. Van der Merwe, New Providence, NJ (US);
Neal Shackleton, Tierra Verde, FL (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising: for selected traffic that enters a backbone network via a predetermined ingress point and is addressed to a predetermined destination, via a dynamic tunnel, automatically diverting the selected traffic from the predetermined ingress point to a processing complex; and automatically forwarding the selected traffic from the processing complex toward the predetermined destination.