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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:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Zhunian Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Steven V. Luong, San Jose, CA (US);

Manish Bhardwaj, San Jose, CA (US);

Stefano Previdi, Rome, IT;

Inventors:

Zhunian Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Steven V. Luong, San Jose, CA (US);

Manish Bhardwaj, San Jose, CA (US);

Stefano Previdi, Rome, IT;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 67/2814 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 15/173 (2013.01); H04L 12/1489 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/1877 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a first network device may receive a request for an identifier of at least one target to service a client. The first network device may obtain an identifier of each of two or more targets. The first network device may then determine whether to redirect the request. The first network device may redirect the request to a second network device according to a result of the determining step, where the first network device is in a first autonomous system and the second network device is in a second autonomous system.


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