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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2012
Applicants:

David C. White, Jr., Durham, NC (US);

Iqlas Maheen Ottamalika, San Jose, CA (US);

Madhusudan Challa, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

David C. White, Jr., Durham, NC (US);

Iqlas Maheen Ottamalika, San Jose, CA (US);

Madhusudan Challa, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system for tracing operations executed by a network device on a packet wherein a network device may capture a packet and determine whether the packet is a candidate for tracing; if the packet is a candidate for tracing the network device may set a trace option identifier within the packet indicating that the packet is to be tagged in association with operations performed on or in association with the packet by the network device. The network device may tag the packet with one or more tags in response to the trace option identifier, export the packet with the trace option identifier, generate a report based on the tags and send the report to a network management station.


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