Determining the type of a network tier

US9178771B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9178771-B2
Application numberUS-201213592858-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateAug 23, 2012
Priority dateAug 23, 2012
Publication dateNov 3, 2015
Grant dateNov 3, 2015

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Examples disclosed herein relate to determining the type of a network tier. Examples include determining that a target network tier is a forwarding type network tier if a protocol of communications between the target network tier and a source network resource is the same as a protocol of communications between the target network tier and a backend network tier. Examples further include comparing select content of communications between the target and backend network tiers to select content of communications between the target network tier and the source networking resource, if the protocols are the same.

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What is claimed is: 1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to: determine that a target network tier is a processing type network tier, if a backend communication protocol utilized between the target network tier and a backend network tier is different than a source communication protocol utilized between the target network tier and a source network resource; if the source and backend communica…

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What does patent US9178771B2 cover?
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining the type of a network tier. Examples include determining that a target network tier is a forwarding type network tier if a protocol of communications between the target network tier and a source network resource is the same as a protocol of communications between the target network tier and a backend network tier. Examples further include comparin…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
David Efrat Ben, Kenigsberg Eyal, Gopshtein Michael, and 1 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L43/18. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Nov 03 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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