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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:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2015
Applicant:

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ivy Pei-Shan Hsu, Dublin, CA (US);

Sanjeev Nand Chhabria, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Xiaochu Chen, San Ramon, CA (US);

Sanjay Munshi, San Ramon, CA (US);

Arvindsrinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04L 43/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

A GTP correlation cluster (GCC) can automatically program a network element to forward copies of packets originating from a mobile device and having a shared attribute to the same analytic server, regardless of the regions into which the mobile device moves. The GCC can monitor attributes of copies of control packets that the network element receives. In response to detecting a changed attribute within a control packet originating from a mobile device, the GCC can update a session map specific to that mobile device in order to cause packets having that changed attribute to be forwarded to the same port to which packets having the former attribute were being forwarded prior to the change. As a result, the network element can ensure that packets belonging to a particular session still are forwarded to the same analytic server even if the mobile device has moved to a different region.


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