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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bruno Rijsman, Arlington, MA (US);

Usha Sharma, Fremont, CA (US);

Prabhakaran Ganesan, Fremont, CA (US);

Sankar Ramamoorthi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 47/2408 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network device may receive information regarding a service set identifying service to apply to a data flow received via a particular interface of the network device; receive the data flow via the particular interface; identify a service to provide to the data flow based on the information regarding the service set; identify a processing device to process the data flow; and provide the data flow to the processing device. The processing device may be different than the network device and may process the data flow, on behalf of the network device, to form a processed data flow. The processed data flow may include the data flow with the service applied to the data flow. The network device may further receive the processed data flow from the processing device and transmit the processed data flow toward a destination device.


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