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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
John E. McDowall, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/2416 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
System, method, and computer program product to represent a network using a programmable graph model, by generating a directed graph to represent a topology of the network, wherein each of a plurality of network elements in the network are represented, in the directed graph, by one of the plurality of nodes, identifying, through the directed graph, a subset of network elements, of the plurality of network elements, upon which to apply a requested operation, and applying the requested operation to the subset of network elements in a distributed manner through the directed graph.