Patent ID: 9667653
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: configuring a computer with a set of context-aware data forwarding policies of a network having a dynamic context; monitoring the dynamic context of the network; determining a set of network configuration forwarding rules for one or more data forwarding devices of the network, responsively to the configured context-aware data forwarding policies and the dynamic context of the network; operating by the computer, a first thread that detects changes in the dynamic context of the network, responsively to the monitoring and in response to detected changes, updates, based on the set of context-aware data forwarding policies and the detected changes in the dynamic context, the set of network configuration forwarding rules; in parallel to operating the first thread, operating a second thread that receives rule requests and in response to the received rule requests conveys to the data forwarding devices, the updated set of network configuration forwarding rules; and handling packets by the data forwarding devices according to the conveyed updated set of network configuration forwarding rules.