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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method for using the OpenFlow protocol to configure an OpenFlow-enabled switch is disclosed. In the embodiment, the method involves decoding an OpenFlow flow entry from a flow mod message, the flow entry including two or more components comprising at least one of a match field and an experimenter field, searching a service access point (SAP) match table for an incoming interface having attributes that match the two or more components, and updating a flow table on the OpenFlow-enabled switch to include the decoded flow entry when an incoming interface having attributes that match the two or more components is found.