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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Wiretap Ventures, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
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);
Wiretap Ventures, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one example, a controller device for a software defined network (SDN) includes one or more network interfaces configured to communicate with network devices of the SDN, and one or more processors configured to obtain data representative of the network devices in the SDN, instantiate software-based controller objects for controllers of the network devices, instantiate software-based switch description objects for switches of the network devices, wherein the software-based switch description objects each comprise data representative of a respective primary controller corresponding to a controller of the one or more controllers, a respective switch identifier, a respective switch media access control (MAC) address, a respective Internet protocol (IP) address, and a respective array of port description objects for each physical port on the respective switch, and managing, via the network interfaces, at least some of the switches using the switch description objects and the controller objects.