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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
Shan Huang, Ashburn, VA (US);
Michael Kelsen, Centreville, VA (US);
Ronald da Silva, Ashburn, VA (US);
Tushar A. Nakhre, Herndon, VA (US);
TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) device comprising storing a data structure correlating a plurality of border gateway protocol (BGP) attribute tags to packet header data, receiving a packet via a network of connected devices, determining a BGP attribute tag of the packet according to packet header data of said packet, determining an action to apply to the packet based on the data structure and the BGP attribute tag, and applying the action to the packet, wherein the action includes routing the packet in accordance with a BGP.