Patent ID: 11870687
Assignee: ORANGE
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A method for reading an identifier representative of a group of data packets transmitted on an Internet Protocol (IP)/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the method being implemented by a reading device of the IP/MPLS network and comprising:
receiving at least one data packet belonging to said group of data packets, and
obtaining said identifier from at least a first data field associated with an Entropy Label (EL) label or with an Entropy Label Indicator (ELI) label of an MPLS protocol present in said data packet, at least a second part of said data field being associated with an Entropy Label (EL) label and comprising a value of an entropy,
wherein said at least one data field is comprised in a list consisting of:
a Label data field of the EL label,
a Traffic Class (TC) data field of the EL label,
a Time To Live (TTL) data field of the EL label,
a TC data field of the ELI label, and
a TTL data field of the ELI label.