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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2012
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 29/12575 (2013.01); H04L 45/026 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A virtual tunnel method is described herein which implemented by a host and next hop routers to address a problem that is related to synchronizing active tunnel(s) and active link(s) between the host and next hop routers. Furthermore, a multiple tunnel management method is described herein which implemented by a host to address the problem that is related to synchronizing active tunnel(s) and active link(s) between the host and multiple next hop routers.