Patent ID: 11968170
Assignee: RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING COMPANY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
providing, from a first pod executing on the computing system to a networking service implemented within a kernel on the computing system, a data structure having a mapping for processing network packets, the mapping being based on signaling information for a communication session between external entities;
receiving network traffic of the communication session, wherein the network traffic is received by a network interface card (NIC) of the computing system;, processing data of the network traffic by the first pod according to a service provided by the first pod;
receiving the network traffic at the networking service from the first pod subsequent to processing the data of the network traffic; and
with the networking service, routing the network traffic to one of the external entities via the NIC, including updating address information of the network traffic according to the mapping.