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

Claim 4:
5. A sending device for sending data packets transmitted on an Internet Protocol (IP)/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the sending device comprising:
a receiver,
a transmitter, a processor, and
a memory coupled to the processor with instructions to be executed by the processor to:
obtain an identifier representative of a group of data packets comprising at least one data packet,
insert said identifier into at least a first part of a data field associated with an Entropy Label (EL) label or with an Entropy Label Indicator (ELI) label of the MPLS protocol of said at least one 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 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, and

send said at least one data packet to a reading device of the IP/MPLS network.