Patent ID: 9071545
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network appliance for communicating packets of a flow pair, wherein the flow pair comprises a first flow of packets and a second flow of packets, and wherein the network appliance comprises: a plurality of processor integrated circuits; and a network processor that receives a packet of the first flow and without performing deep packet inspection on any packet of the flow pair determines a predicted future time when a future packet of the flow pair will be received, wherein the network processor determines to send the future packet to a selected one of the plurality of processor integrated circuits based at least in part on the predicted future time, wherein the future packet is a packet of the second flow, the network appliance further comprising: a bulk storage system coupled to each of the plurality of processor integrated circuits, wherein the bulk storage system stores data associated with the second flow, wherein the network processor initiates a preloading of the data from the bulk storage system to the selected one of the processor integrated circuits prior to the predicted future time when the future packet will be received and before the future packet is actually received onto the network appliance, and wherein the network processor initiates the preloading by waiting an amount of time and then initiating the preloading.