Patent ID: 11863443
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for creating a multi-region virtual overlay network for a software-defined wide area network, the method comprising:
receiving a message header of a subnet message, wherein the message header comprises an identifier associated with a first network appliance, an identifier associated with a first regional subnetwork, and a role of the first network appliance, wherein the message header is associated with a packet comprising at least one piece of routing information;
determining whether to send the piece of routing information to at least one spoke in a hub-and-spoke topology associated with a second regional subnetwork based on the role of the first network appliance; and
based on the determination, sending the routing information to the at least one spoke in the hub-and-spoke topology associated with the second regional subnetwork.