Patent ID: 9237124
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A network device of a server having a processor and a storage, the network device comprising: a communication unit configured to receive a data packet to be transmitted to a destination in a data communications network; a protocol blind network path indication unit configured to obtain an indicator corresponding to a predetermined network path through an overlay network comprising one or more tunnels having one or more attributes connecting a first network switch to a second network switch in the data communications network, using a destination address of the data packet, the predetermined network path corresponding to one of the one or more tunnels; and a network protocol blind packet generation unit configured to generate a network protocol blind packet including: the data packet, and the indicator to the predetermined data path in the data communications network, the network protocol blind packet being generated independent of a network protocol of the overlay network.