Managing a flow table

US9065724B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9065724-B2
Application numberUS-201213615954-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateSep 14, 2012
Priority dateJan 30, 2009
Publication dateJun 23, 2015
Grant dateJun 23, 2015

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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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What is claimed is: 1. A network device comprising: an interface component to: receive a data unit associated with a data flow; determine a type of the data flow; access a flow type table, based on the determined type of the data flow, to determine whether to store first information associated with the data flow in a flow table, the flow type table including second information that indicates whether to store the first information in the flow table; process, when the second…

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What does patent US9065724B2 cover?
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 in…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Kohn Jack, Rowell David, Shi Fuguang, and 2 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L43/026. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jun 23 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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