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US 2004/0111517 A1Published application
Servicing forwarding elements in a network
OwnerMitu Aggarwal, Hsin-Yuo Liu +2inventors
InventorsMitu Aggarwal, Hsin-Yuo Liu, Rajeev D. Muralidhar, Puqi Tang
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to provide service to an active network node may be described.
Claims33
A method to service a network element, comprising:
- initiating a service event for an element of an active network node;
- performing said service event by processing a set of capabilities associated with said element.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a forwarding plane comprising at least one forwarding element (FE);
- a control plane comprising at least one control element (CE);
- a back plane for communicating capabilities information between said forwarding plane and said control plane;
- a FE transport module (FTM) to aggregate and communicate said capabilities information using said back plane;
- a CE transport module (CTM) to receive said capabilities information;
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- a service management module (SMM) to initiate a FE bind event to discover and bind said FE to said CE using said capabilities information.
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An article comprising:
- a storage medium;
- said storage medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in servicing a network element by initiating a service event for an element of an active network node, and performing said service event by processing a set of capabilities associated with said element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.