Patent ID: 11909656
Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 31:
32. A method comprising:
at least one software-based processor implementing at least one virtual network function (VNF) associated with flow processing and offloading at least some of the flow processing to at least one hardware accelerator; and
a module, external to the software-based processor and the hardware accelerator, examining a plurality of flows and determining which one or more flows are more suitable for offloading from the software-based processor to the hardware accelerator than one or more other flows, wherein:
the external module is configured to identify a specified number of flows for offloading;
the specified number is programmable; and
the software-based processor transmits a message to the external module to change the programmable specified number.