Application specified steering policy implementation
US7643496B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 28, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jan 5, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 14, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/20
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data plane architecture enables IP applications, hosted on any processor within a network element, to define steering policies that may be implemented in the data plane. The steering policies enable the applications to define steering policies containing both attributes and actions. The attributes are used to identify the packets and the actions are used to define how the data plane of the network element should handle the packets. The steering policies are implemented in the data plane of the network element by a data path policy steering process. The data path policy steering process operates to implement steering policies defined by applications to cause IP termination to occur at any processor on the network element or optionally at a processor off the network element.
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