Patent ID: 8559431
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a connection between a first node and a network comprising a plurality of nodes supporting a plurality of services, each service supported by at least one node of the plurality of nodes; receiving at the first node a frame from a second node of the plurality of nodes, the frame comprising at least two labels attached to the frame by the second node; extracting at the first node a first label value from a first label of the frame; determining at the first node that the frame was sent by the second node of the plurality of nodes based on the extracted first label value from the first label; extracting at the first node a second label value from a second label of the frame; determining at the first node that the frame is associated with a first service of the plurality of services based on the extracted second label value from the second label; and processing the frame at the first node based on both the determination that the frame was sent by the second node and the determination that the frame is associated with the first service.