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Managing a flow table

US9065724B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 14, 2012
Grant dateJun 23, 2015
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Expiry dateDec 27, 2033

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L43/16
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A device may include a flow table to store, in flow table records, statistics associated with a number of data flows, and a flow type table to store, in flow type table records, information that indicates whether to store statistics in the flow table for each of a number of types of data flows, information that indicates a manner for sampling data units associated with the data flows, and/or information that indicates when to delete flow table records from the flow table.

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