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- Patent Title: Priority based route programming in a network
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Application No.: US16993807Application Date: 2020-08-14
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Publication No.: US11336591B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Vijai Coimbatore Natarajan
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: H04L49/90
- IPC: H04L49/90 ; H04L45/02 ; H04L47/2441 ; H04L45/28 ; H04L45/00

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a method stores a plurality of requests for routes in a queue based on respective priorities for the routes. The plurality of requests are for programming destinations and next hops for the destinations in a route table that is used by a device in a network to route packets. The method selects a request for a route from the queue based on a respective priority for the queue. Then, the request for the route is sent to an entity to program the route in the route table.
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