Patent ID: 9049045
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium bearing instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, causes performance of operations comprising: determining that data traffic is passing through a network device while propagating from (i) a first client communicatively coupled to a first access node to (ii) a second client communicatively coupled to a second access node; determining that the data traffic passing through the network device from the first client to the second client is eligible for peer-to-peer forwarding: instructing, by the network device, the first access node to open a tunnel to the second access node, wherein the tunnel does not include the network device; wherein additional data traffic eligible for peer-to-peer forwarding travels between the first client and the second client through the tunnel without passing through the network device; and wherein additional data traffic in eligible for peer-to-peer forwarding travels between the first client and the second client passing through the network device.