Service prioritization in link state controlled layer two networks
US8873401B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 25, 2011 |
| Grant date | Oct 28, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 10, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L45/026
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a node configured to maintain a plurality of downloaded forwarding states for a plurality of link state based services that are associated with the node and a plurality of other nodes in a network comprising the node, and a plurality of advertised service identifiers (IDs) that correspond to the link state based services, wherein the service IDs are ordered in sequence from higher priority to lower priority link state based services, and wherein work is instantiated at the node according to the ordered sequence from higher priority to lower priority link state based services.
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