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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nrupal Jani, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ilango Ganga, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel Daly, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
John Fastabend, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Neerav Parikh, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Elizabeth Kappler, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Brian J. Skerry, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Calin Gherghe, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sanjeev Jain, Chandler, AZ (US);
Ben-Zion Friedman, Jerusalem, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices and techniques for indicating packet processing hints are described herein. A device may receive a data packet. The device may extract a match-action attribute from the data packet that specifies an action to be applied to the data packet. The device may generate a hint field based on the match-action attribute. The hint field may include information to be used for handling the data packet. Other embodiments are also described.