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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Wiretap Ventures, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Roy Liang Chua, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew Palmer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Keith Pearce, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Warren Hawley, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Wiretap Ventures, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/11 (2013.01); H04L 63/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/0209 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one example, a controller device for a software defined network (SDN) includes one or more interfaces for communicating with network devices in the software defined network, and one or more processors configured to determine connections between the network devices, determine one or more paths for network traffic between the network devices based on the determination of the connections, and program the network devices to direct network traffic along the one or more paths.