Patent ID: 9686101
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first node via an input port of the first node, a request to establish a data stream between a source node and a sink node; querying a routing table with an identity of the sink node to select an output port of the first node, the routing table mapping each output port of the first node to potential sink nodes; creating an entry in a forwarding table of the first node, the entry mapping the input port and the selected output port to a global identity of the data stream, the global identity of the data stream uniquely identifying the data stream within a network from a plurality of data streams; receiving, at the first node via the input port, data associated with the data stream; querying the forwarding table with the global identity of the data stream to identify the selected output port mapped to the global identity of the data stream; and outputting, by the first node via the selected output port, the received data associated with the data stream.