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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:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Liqin Dong, San Jose, CA (US);
Chia Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weng Hong Chan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yuchen Zhou, Tiburon, CA (US);
Fang Yang, Shanghai, CN;
Jeffrey Cai, Shanghai, CN;
Yuefeng Jiang, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaopu Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques provided herein use aggregate endpoints in a virtual overlay network. In general, aggregate endpoints operate as a single receiving entity for certain packets/frames sent between different physical proximities of the virtual overlay network.