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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2012
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
David E. McDysan, Great Falls, VA (US);
Stevan H. Leiden, Norwood, MA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device receives packets of an application flow, and inspects one or more of the packets of the application flow. The device determines, based on the inspection of the one or more packets, a service graph of feature peers for the packets of the application flow. The feature peers are associated with a network and the service graph includes an ordered set of the feature peers. The device creates a representation of the service graph. The representation includes an ordered set of feature elements that represent the feature peers of the service graph. The device provides the representation of the service graph to a controller device, and the controller device configures, based on the representation, the network with the service graph so that the packets of the application flow traverse the service graph.