Patent ID: 11888831
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
obtaining, at a first Internet Key Exchange node arranged at a first device, Internet Key Exchange traffic for an established Internet Protocol Security session, wherein the established Internet Protocol Security session was established via a second Internet Key Exchange node arranged at a second device;
determining, at the first Internet Key Exchange node, that the first Internet Key Exchange node does not contain session data for the established Internet Protocol Security session;
providing, from the first Internet Key Exchange node to a data store contained at a third device, a request for the session data associated with the established Internet Protocol Security session; and
obtaining, at the first Internet Key Exchange node from the data store, session data for the established Internet Protocol Security session,
wherein the Internet Key Exchange traffic is obtained at the first Internet Key Exchange node arranged at the first device in response to load balancing among a plurality of Internet Key Exchange nodes.