Data link layer trust signaling in communication network
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a network communication interface to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network;
a processor coupled to the network communication interface; and
a memory coupled to the processor and configured to execute instructions to cause the apparatus to;
determine an indicator of a trusted nature of data for transmission through the network, the indicator including a plurality of serialized portions;
write the data to a frame of a data stream;
write the indicator to a plurality of inter-packet gaps of the data stream, where a first of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator is written to a first inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps and a second of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator is written to a second inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps to indicate fidelity of the data stream via an order of sequence of the indicator in the data stream; and
transmit the data stream to the network via the network communication interface.
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising a network communication interface to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network, a processor coupled to the network communication interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions to cause the apparatus to determine an indicator of a trusted nature of data for transmission through the network, write the data to a frame of a data stream, write the indicator to an inter-packet gap of the data stream, and transmit the data stream to the network via the network communication interface.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a network communication interface to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network; a processor coupled to the network communication interface; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to execute instructions to cause the apparatus to; determine an indicator of a trusted nature of data for transmission through the network, the indicator including a plurality of serialized portions; write the data to a frame of a data stream; write the indicator to a plurality of inter-packet gaps of the data stream, where a first of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator is written to a first inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps and a second of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator is written to a second inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps to indicate fidelity of the data stream via an order of sequence of the indicator in the data stream; and transmit the data stream to the network via the network communication interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus, comprising:
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a network communication interface to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network; a processor coupled to the network communication interface; a memory coupled to the processor; and a trusted data monitoring application stored in the memory that when executed, causes the processor to; monitor the network for existence of a data stream containing an indicator of a trusted nature of data contained in the data stream, the indicator including a plurality of serialized portions; determine whether the data stream is being properly handled in the network when the data stream contains the indicator of the trusted nature of data contained in the data stream, the determination made at least according to a determination that the plurality of serialized portions occur in contiguous serial order in a plurality of inter-packet gaps of the data stream; and execute at least one action in the network in response to the data stream not being properly handled in the network. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method executed in a communications network, comprising:
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writing, by a first network element, into a plurality of inter-packet gaps of a data stream, an indication of a trusted nature of data included in a frame of the data stream, wherein the indicator includes a plurality of serialized portions having a first of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator written to a first inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps and a second of the plurality of serialized portions of the indicator written to a second inter-packet gap of the plurality of inter-packet gaps to indicate fidelity of the data stream via an order of sequence of the indicator in the data stream; transmitting, by the first network element, the data stream through the communications network; monitoring, by a second network element, the communications network at a data link layer for existence of the indication of the trusted nature of data in the inter-packet gap of the data stream; determining, by the second network element, that the data stream is being improperly handled in the communications network; and transmitting, by the second network element, a notification of improper handling of the data stream in the communications network to a notification destination. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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