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Virtualized path identifier providing generic descriptors for reaching a destination using an identified path determination method

  • US 10,225,190 B2
  • Filed: 08/23/2016
  • Issued: 03/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • acquiring, by a network device, a data structure containing a virtualized path identifier, the virtualized path identifier specifying a path determination method and a destination identifier that identifies a destination that is reachable according to the path determination method;

    determining a routing context, by the network device, in a route method database based on the virtualized path identifier, the routing context determined from among distinct types of available path determination methods identified in the route method database for different physical routing domain types having respective different distinct physical network deployments in a heterogeneous data network, the routing context for reaching the destination across the corresponding physical routing domain type according to the corresponding path determination method; and

    causing reaching of the destination, via the corresponding physical routing domain type in the heterogeneous data network, in response to the network device executing the path determination method on the destination identifier according to the routing context obtained from the route method database.

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