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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:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2013
Applicant:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Peter Ashwood-Smith, Gatineau, CA;

Guoli Yin, Ottawa, CA;

Yapeng Wu, Nepean, CA;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method implemented by a hypervisor located in a first network device (ND), the method comprising sending to and receiving from a second ND a first type of packet, wherein each packet of the first type of packet comprises media access control (MAC) layer information of a client; and sending to and receiving from a third ND a second type of packet, wherein each packet of the second type of packet contains no client MAC layer information.


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