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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Carl Richard Gyllenhammer, Northborough, MA (US);
Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Holliston, MA (US);
Philip Romanov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a system embodying the method for load balancing of a received a packet based network traffic, comprising: receiving a packet at a software defined network switch; determining information pertaining to uniqueness of a packet flow for the received packet; providing the determined information and the received packet to a network interface controller; and processing the received packet at the network interface controller in accordance with the provided determined information, are disclosed.