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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Neil R. Diener, Hudson, OH (US);
Jagdish Girimaji, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Rad Sethuraman, Campbell, CA (US);
Balachander Chandrasekaran, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ravi Akireddy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are presented to enable a network element in a network to receive a request from an application on a device, the request being encapsulated in a packet that includes a header that contains a physical layer identifier of the device to which the application does not have access. The physical layer identifier at the network element may be obtained. A response may be sent to the application on the device, the response containing at least one of the physical layer identifier of the device and location information of the device.