Patent ID: 8842669
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a packet-forwarding engine, a request from an application, the request requesting the packet-forwarding engine to route a packet flow to the application and identifying one or more conditions for determining whether to route or not route particular ones of the packets in the packet flow to the application, wherein the one of the conditions specify that the particular ones of the packets in the packet flow are not to be routed to the applications after a predetermined time interval has lapsed; at the packet-forwarding engine, receiving a particular packet in the packet flow; at the packet-forwarding engine, determining whether the one or more of the conditions for not routing the particular packet to the application are met; at the packet-forwarding engine, routing or not routing the particular packet to the application based on the determination; and updating one or more metrics based on the particular packet, wherein: