Patent ID: 9160671
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining whether an ingress message is locally terminated traffic on a digital device prior to the ingress message being forwarded to a hardware processor of the digital device for processing, the determining whether an ingress message is locally terminated traffic comprising: determining that a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address corresponds to an IP address associated with one or more active processes running on a control plane of the digital device that will either process the ingress message or initiate a reply to the ingress message, comparing port information within the ingress message to port information stored in the first memory, wherein the stored port information corresponds to the one or more active processes, and determining that the port information within the ingress message matches the stored port information; and assigning a priority to the ingress message based on information within the ingress message when the ingress message is determined to be locally terminated traffic.