Patent ID: 11962504
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus comprising:
a storage system;
program instructions stored on the storage system that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to:
identify a route for redistribution in a computing network;
determine when a prefix in the radix tree applies to the route;
when a prefix in the radix tree fails to apply to the route, deny the route; and
when a prefix in the radix tree applies to the route:
determine the longest prefix in the radix tree associated with the route;
identify a route-map clause associated with the longest prefix;
identify one or more additional route-map clauses each associated with a parent prefix of one or more parent prefixes of the longest prefix match in the radix tree;
identify a highest priority route-map clause from the route-map clause and the one or more additional route map clauses; and
initiate an action associated with the highest priority route-map clause.