Patent ID: 9392050
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: applying, by an application, an input filter to an ingress port of a first network element to monitor one or more network flows traversing the ingress port of the first network element using an application programming interface (API), the API abstracting a control plane of the first network element to permit the application to monitor and control data traffic traversing the first network element, wherein the first network element is in a software defined networking (SDN) enabled network, wherein the SDN enabled network comprises a private cloud network; monitoring, by the input filter, a load attribute of the one or more network flows; upon determining that the load attribute exceeds a predefined threshold, issuing, by the input filter applied to the first network element, a high load notification to the application; provisioning, by the application, an additional service on an external network, wherein the external network comprises a public cloud network, wherein the external network is external to and not a part of the SDN enabled network; and extending, by the application, the SDN enabled network to include the additional service on the external network, wherein extending the SDN enabled network creates a hybrid network comprising the private cloud network and the public cloud network.