Patent ID: 11895027
Assignee: PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. The method of claim 13 further including:
receiving a second packet that includes a private network address in the source address field and includes a second destination address in the destination address field;
routing the second packet to a second selected service node that is in a second replication chain; and
sending a translated packet to a destination indicated by the second destination address,
wherein
the second selected service node produces the translated packet using the second packet,
the service state information includes a network address translation (NAT) mapping table,
the second selected service node stores a NAT mapping for the second packet in the NAT mapping table,
the translated packet is produced using the NAT mapping, and
the NAT mapping is distributed within the second replication chain using chain replication.