Patent ID: 11909664
Assignee: ARRCUS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
providing a plurality of client nodes executing on a computer system, the plurality of client nodes implementing a plurality of network protocols;
implementing, on the computer system, a dataplane providing routing of data among the plurality of client nodes and an external network coupled to the computer system;
receiving, by a segment identifier (SID) manager executing on the computer systems, requests for SIDs from the plurality of client nodes; and
for each client node of the plurality of client nodes, allocating, by the SID manager, a block of multiple SIDs to the each client node in response to a requests of the requests received from the each client node, the multiple SIDs being globally unique among all SIDs allocated to the plurality of client nodes.