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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:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Jiafeng Zhu, San Ramon, CA (US);

Changcheng Huang, Ottawa, CA;

Min Luo, San Jose, CA (US);

Wu Chou, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/507 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

A client is provided with information that defines a virtual network for the client, where the virtual network is implemented on a physical network. A label is assigned to the virtual network. The label is sent to packet-handling devices in the physical network that are part of the virtual network. The label is also sent to a controller of the virtual network. The first label is then included in data packets sent over the virtual network. The packet-handling devices handle the data packets on the virtual network according to a policy associated with the label.


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