Pooling of network processing resources
US12335141B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 23, 2021 |
| Grant date | Jun 17, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 30, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2012/4629
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Examples described herein relate to a switch configured to allocate packet processing resources, from a pool of packet processing resources, to multiple applications, wherein the pool of packet processing resources comprise configurable packet processing pipelines of one or more network devices and packet processing resources of one or more servers. In some examples, the configurable packet processing pipelines and the packet processing resources are to perform one or more of: network switch operations, microservice communications, and/or block storage operations. In some examples, the network switch operations comprise one or more of: application of at least one access control list (ACL), packet forwarding, packet routing, and/or Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) or GENEVE termination. In some examples, the microservice communications comprise one or more of: packet routing between microservices and/or load balancing of utilized microservices.
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