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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Fang Hao, Morganville, NJ (US);
Tirunellai V. Lakshman, Morganville, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for processing data packets by a first-hop switch in a data network, including: receiving a first data packet associated with a flow; determining whether the flow associated with the first data packet is found in a flow table in the first-hop switch; modifying the first data packet by replacing a packet header field with flow definition information; and transmitting the modified first data packet based upon the flow definition information.
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