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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2011
Applicants:
Peter Ashwood-smith, Gatineau, CA;
Yin Guoli, Ottawa, CA;
Zhang Xuejiang, Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/026 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a node configured to maintain a plurality of downloaded forwarding states for a plurality of link state based services that are associated with the node and a plurality of other nodes in a network comprising the node, and a plurality of advertised service identifiers (IDs) that correspond to the link state based services, wherein the service IDs are ordered in sequence from higher priority to lower priority link state based services, and wherein work is instantiated at the node according to the ordered sequence from higher priority to lower priority link state based services.