Patent ID: 9391869
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a server device, configuration information; creating, by the server device and using the received configuration information, a virtual node, determining, by the server device, information associated with an operating system that is executed by the network node; creating, by the server device and using the information associated with the operating system and the created virtual node, an operational virtual node; causing, by the server device, the operational virtual node to execute the information associated with the operating system based on configuration information associated with the network node; causing, by the server device, the operational virtual node to communicate with the other virtual nodes, of the plurality of virtual nodes, to determine network topology information associated with a virtual network; and causing, by the server device, the operational virtual node to generate routing tables based on the determined network topology information.