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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pravin Shelar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jesse E. Gross, IV, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jarno Rajahalme, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/747 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/742 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a managed forwarding element. The method receives a set of packets for processing by the managed forwarding element. For each of several packets in the set, the method associates the packet with one of several groups of other packets in the set. Each group of packets shares a set of characteristics. For each group of packets the method identifies a set of actions to perform and executes the specified set of actions on all of the packets in the group together.