SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE STATELESS SERVING GATEWAY OPERATIONS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180206275
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include sharing an access key from a control-plane serving gateway (SGW-C) to a plurality of user-plane serving gateways (SGW-Us); allocating a plurality of Fully Qualified Tunnel Endpoint Identifiers (FQTEIDs) associated with a user equipment (UE) session; generating an access token for the UE session based, at least in part, on the access key and the plurality of FQTEIDs; and appending the access token to user-plane packets for the…
Determining Audience Engagement
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180205989
Determining audience engagement may be provided. First, an image may be received and a plurality of faces may be identified in the received image. Then position data and head pose data for each of the plurality of faces in the received image may be determined. Next, the plurality of faces may be separated into a plurality of clusters based upon the determined position data for each of the plurality of faces in the received image. For each of the plurality of clusters, a plurality of bins…
Cache Aware Streaming
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180205802
Cache aware streaming may be provided. First, a client device may measure a transfer rate of a flow corresponding to content. The client device may then throttle down the flow to a first encode quality level in response to determining that the measured transfer rate of the flow will not support a current encode quality level of the flow. The first encode quality level may be lower than the current encode quality level. Next, the client device may determine a recommended encode quality…
Hash-based Address Matching
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180205654
In one embodiment, processing is performed based on the result of a lookup operation that determines a matching hash bucket entry, with each of the entries of the hash table spanning at least two memories. A first portion of the matching hash bucket entry is retrieved from a first random access memory from a first hash bucket stored at a first location identified based on a first particular hash function applied to a hash key. First current information of the hash key is determined to…
ENTROPY PREFIX SEGMENT IDENTIFIER FOR USE WITH ENTROPY LABEL IN SEGMENT ROUTING NETWORKS
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180205641
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at an ingress node in a segment routing network, an entropy prefix segment identifier, generating a label stack comprising the entropy prefix segment identifier and an entropy label beneath the entropy prefix segment identifier, and transmitting a packet comprising the label stack using the entropy prefix segment identifier as a transport label and an entropy label identifier. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
FRONT END FOR FULL DUPLEX CABLE MODEM
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180205532
Designs for a front end for suppressing adjacent channel interference (ACI) and adjacent leakage interference (ALI) in a full duplex cable modem (CM) for a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (“DOCSIS”) network are described. The CM includes an upstream (US) signal path receiving a digital US input signal and transmitting an analog-converted US signal in a US frequency range to a cable modem termination system (CMTS); a downstream (DS) signal path receiving an analog DS…
FAST ARCHIVAL WITH LOOPBACK
Granted: July 19, 2018
Application Number:
20180203604
In one embodiment, an accelerator node transfers a first fragment of the data in a first format received from a data generating machine to a storage node. The accelerator node reads the first fragment in the first format from the storage node after the transferring is complete. The accelerator node transforms the accelerator node the first fragment in the first format to a second format. The accelerator node writes the first fragment in the second format by the accelerator node to the…
PROVIDING DYNAMIC ROUTING UPDATES IN FIELD AREA NETWORK DEPLOYMENT USING INTERNET KEY EXCHANGE V2
Granted: July 5, 2018
Application Number:
20180191669
A method is described and in one embodiment includes identifying at an initiator element a list of Internet protocol (“IP”) prefixes corresponding to routes designated as interesting routes, wherein the IP prefixes are included in a Routing Information Base (“RIB”) of the initiator; monitoring the RIB for a change in the list of IP prefixes; and, responsive to detection of a change in the list of IP prefixes, injecting at least a portion of the changed list of IP prefixes into a…
Detecting and Mitigating Loops
Granted: July 5, 2018
Application Number:
20180191603
Access-side loop mitigation may be provided. First, a first edge device may determine that a duplicate host exists on a network. Then the first edge device may detect a loop in response to determining that the duplicate host exists on the network. Detecting the loop may comprise sending a message on a plurality of access-side ports of the first edge device and then receiving, in response to sending the message on the plurality of access-side ports of the first edge device, a response on…
CABLE CELLULAR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK
Granted: June 28, 2018
Application Number:
20180184337
A method is described and in one embodiment includes providing a physical connection between a node and a user equipment at a subscriber premises via a cable connection, wherein the node comprises a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (“DOCSIS”) remote PHY device (“RPD”) collocated with a cellular small cell device; receiving at the node a cellular downlink (“DL”) data signal from a cellular network connected to the cellular small cell device; combining the…
ENDPOINT ADMISSION CONTROL
Granted: June 21, 2018
Application Number:
20180176181
In an example, there is disclosed a network switch, including: an ingress interface; an egress interface; an endpoint repository network interface; and one or more logic elements including an endpoint admission control engine to: receive a packet on the ingress interface, the packet having an associated source Internet protocol (IP) address and virtual network identifier (VNI); query an endpoint repository via the endpoint repository network interface for the source IP address and VNI;…
NETWORK DATA MODEL MAPPING BASED ON MATCHING STRENGTH
Granted: June 21, 2018
Application Number:
20180176096
In one embodiment, a method includes processing network data models at a network device configured to operate in a network comprising one or more network components associated with one of the network data models, generating representations of the network data models, the representations comprising labels for elements in the network data models, comparing the labels associated with leaf nodes of the network data models to identify matching leaf nodes, comparing the labels associated with…
EFFICIENT MULTICAST TRAFFIC FORWARDING IN EVPN-BASED MULTI-HOMED NETWORKS
Granted: June 14, 2018
Application Number:
20180167315
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to assisting forwarding of multicast traffic over Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) from a multicast source to a host multi-homed to multiple provider edge (PE) devices. Embodiments are based on the inclusion of an Ethernet Segment Identification (ESI) to EVPN type-6 routes advertised by PE devices which received a multicast Join message. Other PE devices receiving such routes are able to determine whether they belong to the ES…
Forwarding of Multicast Packets in a Network
Granted: June 14, 2018
Application Number:
20180167311
In one embodiment, multicast packets including, but not limited to, Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) multicast packets, are forwarded in a network. An independent lookup operation is performed on each destination node identified in the received packet to determine a nexthop to which to forward a copy of the packet. Typically, some or possibly all of these lookup operations are performed in parallel, in contrast to the sequential lookup and bit masking operations of previous BIER…
AUTOMATED LOG ANALYSIS
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180157713
There is disclosed in an example a computer-implemented method of providing automated log analysis, including: receiving a log stream comprising a plurality of transaction log entries, the log entries comprising a time stamp, a component identification (ID), and a name value pair identifying a transaction; creating an index comprising mapping a key ID to a name value pair of a log entry; and selecting from the index a key ID having a relatively large number of repetitions. There is also…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERY AND ACQUISITION OF A CONTROL CHANNEL USING GUARD BANDS
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180160415
An example apparatus for discovery and acquisition of a control channel using guard bands is provided and includes a processor; and a memory in communication with the memory. The processor configured is to determine that a whitespace map is unavailable for communication between a first device and a second device; determine that a guard band is to be used for a control channel between the first device and the second device; send a first message to the second device including an indication…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL CHANNEL DETERMINATION AND DETECTION IN AN OPPORTUNISTIC WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180160312
An example apparatus for control channel determination and detection in an opportunistic wireless network environment is provided and includes a processor; and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor configured is to send, by a first device, a request for a whitespace map, the whitespace map including a list of whitespace frequency channels available for use within a particular geographical area. The processor is further configured to receive the whitespace map by the…
CONTEXT EXPORT FROM AN ACCESS POINT TO A FABRIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180159957
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a network element that is configured for receiving, from an access point, a data packet originating from a client, the data packet comprising a packet header that comprises a packet header augmented with context information; decapsulating the packet header to identify the context information; applying a client-specific policy on the packet based, at least in part, on the context information; and forwarding the packet to a next hop in the…
Load Balancing Eligible Packets in Response to a Policing Drop Decision
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180159779
One embodiment includes a packet switching device load balancing eligible packets in response to a policing drop decision. The packet switching device sends packets of a particular packet flow out of the packet switching device over a first path in the network towards a destination node; and in response to a policer discipline determining to drop a particular packet of the particular packet flow, switching from said sending packets over the first path to sending packets of the particular…
TECHNIQUES FOR INFORMING COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS OF DESIRED PACKET TRANSPORT TREATMENT
Granted: June 7, 2018
Application Number:
20180159777
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a first node in a communications network a message associated with a first flow, wherein the message comprises a flow treatment attribute including metadata indicative of how the first flow should be treated in the network; analyzing the flow treatment attribute at the first node; setting policy for treatment of the flow in the network based on the analyzing; and forwarding the message to a next network node.
