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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitali Parthasarathy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Avni Baveja, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish Purushottam Attarde, San Jose, CA (US);
Biju Mathews Mammen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes several key features of an agent deployable on a service appliance: agent architecture/design, transport and channel abstractions of the agent, new message definition components, channel switching (e.g., platform independent processing), Channel state machine, platform dependent hooks (e.g., memory, timers), Service key data store, and Secure channel infrastructure. Many of these features alleviate the vendor of the service appliance from having to provide the features. The features and standardization thereof enable the system to be more robust (and increases code quality). Speed of integration is decreased while the risk of integration issues is also decreased. Updates to the agent can be deployed in a controlled and efficient manner. Furthermore, the agent can ensure security between a switch and the agent. The agent deployed and running on vendor appliances provides a unique way to present transport channels that run between the switch, agent, and other service appliance components.