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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:
Jul. 11, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2011
Applicants:

Stephen G. Low, Austin, TX (US);

Paul T. Congdon, Granite Bay, CA (US);

Mark A. Pearson, Applegate, CA (US);

Charles L. Hudson, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Stephen G. Low, Austin, TX (US);

Paul T. Congdon, Granite Bay, CA (US);

Mark A. Pearson, Applegate, CA (US);

Charles L. Hudson, Round Rock, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/50 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/4679 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for network virtualization can include providing, by a datacenter () having physical and/or virtual resources, a number of virtual tenant datacenters (tDatacenters), each tDatacenter being isolated from other tDatacenters. A tenant virtual local area network (T-VLAN) () is associated to each of the number of tDatacenters, and a value of an end-to-end invariant network virtual local area network (VLAN) identification (VID) label (T-VID) is associated to a particular T-VLAN (). A network packet associated with the particular T-VLAN () is modified at an edge network boundary () to include the T-VID. The T-VID is configured to have more than 4096 possible values.


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