×

Encoding traffic classification information for networking configuration

  • US 9,712,390 B2
  • Filed: 11/04/2013
  • Issued: 07/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A system, comprising:

  • a plurality of computing devices comprising one or more respective processors and memory and configured to;

    establish, at a networking configuration server, based at least in part on a networking management policy of a distributed system, a particular hierarchy of network traffic categories and respective networking configuration options associated with the network traffic categories of the particular hierarchy to be applied at a particular computing device of the distributed system, and a different hierarchy of network traffic categories and respective networking configuration options associated with the network traffic categories of the different hierarchy to be applied at a different computing device of the distributed system;

    determine, at the networking configuration server, one or more steps of a particular procedure usable to classify network traffic units at the particular computing device into network traffic categories of the particular hierarchy and one or more steps of a different procedure usable to classify network traffic units at a different computing device into network traffic categories of the different hierarchy;

    transmit, from the networking configuration server to the particular computing device, respective representations of a first data structure indicative of the particular hierarchy and a second data structure indicative of the particular procedure and transmit, from the networking configuration server to the different computing device, respective representations of a third data structure indicative of the different hierarchy and a fourth data structure indicative of the different procedure;

    identify, using the particular procedure indicated in the second data structure at the particular computing device, a particular network traffic category of the particular hierarchy to which a particular network traffic unit belongs; and

    transmit the particular network traffic unit in accordance with a particular networking configuration option indicated in the first data structure for the particular network traffic category.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×