Patent ID: 11924096
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, at a device of a virtual overlay for a Layer-2 mesh, a frame sent by a source toward a destination via the Layer-2 mesh;
making, by the device, a classification of the frame;
modifying, by the device and based on the classification, the frame to include a header associated with the virtual overlay and to include a trailer that comprises a sequence number of the frame, an identifier for the source of the frame, and a unique flow identifier; and
sending, by the device, the frame modified by the device into the virtual overlay toward the destination, wherein the frame is replicated along different paths in the virtual overlay and wherein a node in the virtual overlay performs deduplication with respect to two or more copies of the frame based on the trailer.