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Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Marco Di Benedetto, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dante Malagrino, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alessandro Salvatori, San Jose, CA (US);

Arthur Lihder Chang, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijay Chander, San Ramon, CA (US);

Thomas Vincent Flynn, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/70 (2013.01); H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01);
Abstract

A distributed virtual appliance is disclosed, including: determining a classification type associated with the first flow; and determining an allocation of the first flow to the first data plane compute unit of the distributed virtual appliance based at least in part on the determined classification type and at least a subset of information of a first flow identifier, wherein the distributed virtual appliance includes a plurality of compute units, including the first data plane compute.


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