Patent ID: 9548932
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method to be executed by a computer device for detecting interactions on a forwarding element in a network (N), wherein the forwarding element (FE) forwards data according to rules, installable on the forwarding element (FE), and wherein a rule set (RS) is installed on the forwarding element (FE), and wherein the rule set (RS) comprises rules (R), and wherein a rule comprises a match set (M) and at least a corresponding action set (A), wherein the match set (M) comprises at least one match field (f) and wherein the action set (A) comprises one or more actions (a) wherein action set (A) to be performed when matching the match set (M) and a priority (P) assigned to each rule (R), comprising the steps of: a) computing (S b) computing (S c) computing (S d) reducing (S wherein: a2) the steps a), b), c) and d) are performed (V b2) one of the forwarding elements (FE) is selected (V c2) a neighbor list of next neighbors (NNFE) with regard to the selected forwarding element (SFE) is determined (V d2) steps c1) to e1) are performed (V e2) the disjoint actual rule sets are merged (V f2) a merged forwarding element (MFE) is defined (V g2) performing (V