Patent ID: 11943128
Assignee: INNOVIUM, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors cause performance of:
receiving, by a network device, data units via one or more communication interfaces;
identifying, by the network device, destinations for the data units;
responsive to determining that one or more telemetry triggering conditions have been met by a data unit:
generating, by the network device, a telemetry data unit by at least partially cloning the data unit from a buffer of a data unit processing pipeline of the network device, the at least partial clone of the data unit includes header data of the data unit;
inserting, by the network device, telemetry data in the telemetry data unit; and

forwarding, by the network device, the data unit and the telemetry data unit along a same path to a same destination based on same header data in both the data unit and the telemetry data unit via the data unit processing pipeline.