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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Applicants:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/755 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0826 (2013.01); H04L 12/4645 (2013.01); H04L 41/0813 (2013.01); H04L 45/021 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for using 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 actions, searching a Service Access Point (SAP) match table for an outgoing interface having attributes that match the two or more actions, and updating a flow table on the OpenFlow-enabled switch to include the decoded flow entry when an outgoing interface having attributes that match the two or more actions is found.