SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PIGGYBACKING ROUTING INFORMATION IN INTERESTS IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK
Granted: January 11, 2018
Application Number:
20180013661
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates routing updates outside of a routing protocol. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate node, a first interest that indicates an originator name which is a routable name prefix for a sender of the first interest and is used by a content producing device in a subsequent interest. In response to not obtaining a matching entry in a forwarding information base (FIB) based on the originator name, the system adds a first entry…
REDUCING ARP/ND FLOODING IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
Granted: January 11, 2018
Application Number:
20180013611
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to receiving an address resolution protocol (ARP) request message from a requesting virtual machine, the ARP request message comprising a request for a destination address for a destination virtual machine, wherein the destination address comprises one or both of a destination hardware address or a destination media access control address; augmenting the ARP request message with a network service header (NSH), the NSH identifying an ARP service…
CARRYING TCP OVER AN ICN NETWORK
Granted: December 28, 2017
Application Number:
20170373975
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to systems, network nodes, and methods performed in a network node. A network node can host a TCP/ICN proxy for routing TCP packets through an ICN network. The network node can serve as a forward proxy or a reverse proxy. As a forward proxy, the network node can receive a first packet at the network node, the first packet compliant with a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol; encapsulate one or more TCP headers from the first packet into a…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEREST GROUPS IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK
Granted: December 28, 2017
Application Number:
20170373974
One embodiment provides a system for facilitating efficient communication of an interest group packet indicating a collection of interests. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate node, a first packet which has a name and indicates a set of member interests, wherein a member interest has a name, wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. In…
PERFORMANCE OF OBJECT STORAGE SYSTEMS
Granted: December 28, 2017
Application Number:
20170371558
Approaches are disclosed for improving performance of logical disks. A logical disk can comprise several storage devices. In an object storage system (OSS), when a logical disk stores a file, fragments of the file are stored distributed across the storage devices. Each of the fragments of the file is asymmetrically stored in (write) and retrieved from (read) the storage devices. The performance of the logical disk is improved by reconfiguring one or more of the storage devices based on…
TECHNIQUES FOR COORDINATON OF APPLICATION COMPONENTS DEPLOYED ON DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL MACHINES
Granted: December 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170364380
One embodiment is a method and includes monitoring by a module associated with a first application component installed on a first virtual machine (“VM”) a state of at least one second application component installed on a second VM and on which a state of the first application component is at least partially dependent, in which the state of the at least one second application component is made available by a module associated with the at least one application component; determining…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING DATA TRANSFERS UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING
Granted: December 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170366611
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device comprising a data transfer optimization module, input identifying a source directory comprising data and a target directory at a storage device, splitting the data into a plurality of data groups for transfer to the storage device, transmitting the data groups concurrently to the storage device on data paths wherein transfer times of the data groups are monitored, receiving at the data transfer optimization module,…
PERMUTATION-BASED CONTENT ENCRYPTION WITH MANIFESTS IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK
Granted: December 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170366515
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates encryption of manifest content based on permutation. During operation, the system partitions, by a computer system, a collection of data into a first set of content objects, wherein a content object is a chunk comprised of a plurality of bytes. The system performs a first permutation function on the first set of content objects to obtain a first set of permuted content objects. The system creates a manifest based on the permuted content…
TECHNIQUES FOR DECREASING MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING ENTROPY LABEL OVERHEAD
Granted: December 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170366461
A method is provided in one embodiment and includes receiving at a network element an encapsulated packet and determining whether both an ECMP/LAG Existing (“ele”) flag and an Entropy Label Capability (“elc”) flag are set for an egress node of the packet in a Label Distribution Protocol (“LDP”) database of the network element. If both the ele and elc flags are set for the egress node of the packet in the LDP database, the method further includes determining whether the…
PACKET PATH RECORDING WITH FIXED HEADER SIZE
Granted: December 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170366456
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to systems, apparatuses and methods performed at a network element. Embodiments include receiving a packet; identifying a hop number for the network element; identifying a unique identifier for the network element; determining a path identifier based on the hop number and the unique identifier; augmenting the packet metadata with the path identifier; and transmitting the packet to a next network element.
System for Cryptographic Key Sharing Among Networked Key Servers
Granted: December 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170359323
A technique for key sharing among multiple key servers connected to one another over a communication network is provided herein. Each key sever of the multiple key servers stores respective cryptographic keys, and provides the keys to a local device group connected with the key server, to enable the device group to encrypt messages with the keys. Each key server acts as a proxy for the other key servers in order to receive other keys from the other key servers over the network, and…
MULIT-MOBILE CORE NETWORKS AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES
Granted: December 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170359265
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a network element a packet associated with a flow and determining whether a flow cache of the network element includes an entry for the flow indicating a classification for the flow. The method further includes, if the network element flow cache does not include an entry for the flow, punting the packet over a default path to a classifying service function, in which the classifying service function classifies the…
CONTENT OBJECT RETURN MESSAGES IN A CONTENT CENTRIC NETWORK
Granted: December 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170359260
One embodiment provides a system that indicates conditions associated with received content. During operation, the system generates, by a first computing device, an interest message which includes a name, wherein the interest message further includes a verification token which is a hash of a nonce. In response to transmitting the interest message to a second computing device, the system receives a content object message which includes a same name as the name for the interest message. In…
FLOW CLASSIFICATION FOR INFORMATION CENTRIC NETWORK PROTOCOLS
Granted: December 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170359254
Embodiments include technologies for identifying an equivalence class identifier in a packet received by a node configured to perform information centric networking (ICN) in an ICN network, where the packet includes a name identifying content associated with a producer node in the ICN network. Embodiments also include determining an equivalence class for the packet by determining a name prefix of the name based, at least in part, on the equivalence class identifier. Embodiments further…
TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT SERVICE CHAIN ANALYTICS
Granted: December 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170359252
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a network element an encapsulated packet including an encapsulation header, in which the encapsulation header includes an Analytics Proxy Function (“APF”) flag; determining whether the APF flag is set to a first value; if the APF flag is set to the first value, forwarding the encapsulated packet to a local APF instance associated with the network element, in which the encapsulated packet is processed by the…
SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE FAST MOBILITY IN A RESIDENTIAL WI-FI NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170353983
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include subscribing to a key distribution service by a plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to a same mobility domain; receiving a request from a user equipment to connect to a first Wi-Fi access point of the plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to the same mobility domain; determining one or more second Wi-Fi access points of the plurality of Wi-Fi access points belonging to the same mobility domain that…
Output Management of Prior Decoded Pictures at Picture Format Transitions in Bitstreams
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170353718
Systems and methods may be provided for determining whether or not to output the “decoded pictures yet to be output” (DPYTBO) after decoding a random access point (RAP) picture of the second of two consecutive coded video sequences in a bitstream. The DPYTBO pictures may reside in a portion of memory coupled to a video decoder. The portion of memory may correspond to the Decoder Picture Buffer (DPB) of the video decoder. The picture resolution in the bitstream is allowed to change…
MULTICAST FAST REROUTE AT ACCESS DEVICES WITH CONTROLLER IMPLEMENTED MULTICAST CONTROL PLANE
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170353382
In one embodiment, a method includes computing at a controller, a primary path and a backup path for transmittal of multicast data from service nodes in communication with the controller and a multicast source to access nodes in communication with multicast receivers, and transmitting from the controller, information for the primary path and the backup path to the access nodes for use by the access nodes in receiving the multicast data on the primary path and the backup path, and…
REMOTE MEMORY ACCESS USING MEMORY MAPPED ADDRESSING AMONG MULTIPLE COMPUTE NODES
Granted: December 7, 2017
Application Number:
20170351639
An example method for facilitating remote memory access with memory mapped addressing among multiple compute nodes is executed at an input/output (IO) adapter in communication with the compute nodes over a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) bus, the method including: receiving a memory request from a first compute node to permit access by a second compute node to a local memory region of the first compute node; generating a remap window region in a memory element of the IO…
DELTA DATABASE SYNCHRONIZATION
Granted: November 30, 2017
Application Number:
20170344594
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to synchronizing at least a portion of a link-state database. A network element can lose an adjacency. The network element can transmit a request to a neighboring network element for synchronization of a link-state database. The request can include a version number of a last synchronized link-state database from the neighboring network element. The neighboring network element can determine whether the version of the link-state database is greater…
