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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:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/933 (2013.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/15 (2013.01); H04B 1/0003 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/5051 (2013.01); H04L 41/5077 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment method of service chaining in a software defined network (SDN) having SDN switches includes receiving a service chain requirement having a plurality of services. Respective tunnels are then defined for the plurality of services. The method then configures the SDN switches to establish the respective tunnels and form a tunnel chain.