Patent ID: 9648542
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A network node configured to perform operations comprising: receiving a first packet from a first network entry point; receiving a second packet from a second network entry point that differs from the first network entry point; determining that the second packet belongs to a same session to which the first packet belongs; determining that the second packet contains a second combination of attributes that differs from a first combination of attributes contained in the first packet; in response to determining that the second combination of attributes differs from the first combination of attributes, replacing a mapping between the first combination of attributes and an identifier of an analytic server to which the first packet was forwarded with a mapping between the second combination of attributes and the identifier of the analytic server; and after the replacing, forwarding packets that contain the second combination of attributes to the analytic server having the identifier that is mapped to the second combination of attributes.