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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2011
Sumeet Singh, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ashok Ganesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik David Ludvigson, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ethan M. Spiegel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sumeet Singh, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ashok Ganesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik David Ludvigson, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Subrata Banerjee, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ethan M. Spiegel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment a method includes at first a network device, identifying an attribute of the first network device, selecting a function that defines how the attribute is to be summarized together with a same attribute of a second network device, generating a message that comprises a set of information comprising an identification of the attribute and the function, and sending the message to, e.g., a next higher node in a network hierarchy of which the network device is a part. Multiple such messages may be received at an aggregation node that then summarizes the attributes according to respective functions, and sends or publishes a summarized version of the attributes to a still next higher node in the network hierarchy.