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

Claim 29:
30. 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 communicates, to the software-based processor, the relative suitability for offloading of a flow; and
the software-based processor uses the relative suitability for offloading to determine whether or not to offload the flow.