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

Claim 13:
14. The network of claim 1, wherein:
the external module is configured to communicate, to the software-based processor, the relative suitability for offloading of a flow;
the software-based processor is configured to use the relative suitability for offloading to determine whether or not to offload the flow;
the external module is configured to determine that larger flows are more suitable for offloading than smaller flows;
the external module is configured to insert a tag into a packet identifying the determined suitability for offloading of one or more flows;
the external module is configured to identify a specified number of flows for offloading;
the software-based processor is a central processing unit (CPU) of the end-server in the network;
the hardware accelerator is part of a network interface card (NIC) of the end-server; and
the external module is part of a top-of-the-rack (TOR) switch in the network.