Intelligent traffic routing

Z Cui, Q Hu, TA Anschutz, JW Rembert… - US Patent 10,285,110, 2019 - Google Patents
Intelligent traffic routing may be utilized to route packets of information to one or more radio
access technologies and/or cells/access points based on network and/or UE conditions …

Supporting programmability for arbitrary events in a software defined networking environment

J Pfeifer, RM Pruss, JE Mcdowall - US Patent 10,397,073, 2019 - Google Patents
Techniques are disclosed for using arbitrary criteria to define events occurring within a
network infrastructure, as well and techniques for detecting and responding to the …

Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method and control apparatus thereof

I Akiyoshi, Y Mizukoshi - US Patent 10,136,412, 2018 - Google Patents
A communication system, a communication apparatus, a control method, and a control
apparatus are provided that make it possible to flexibly increase/decrease a U-plane …

Gateway update information notification method, and controller

Y Bi, J Wang, T Tian - US Patent 10,015,712, 2018 - Google Patents
A method and system for notifying information applied to an Evolved Packet System/General
Packet Radio Service network implemented by a Software Defined Network is provided, in …

Charging in a software defined network

CL Kahn, H Viswanathan - US Patent 9,451,095, 2016 - Google Patents
A controller includes control plane charging system to configure data plane charging system
in a plurality of switches to gather charging information for user flows and provide the …

Bandwidth metering in large-scale networks

MB Furr, CI Hendrie, KC Miller, RD Murphy… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatus for bandwidth metering in large-scale networks are disclosed.
Metadata for a network transmission involving a virtualized resource at a host of a provider …

Streaming method and system for processing network metadata

I Balabine, A Velednitsky - US Patent 9,860,154, 2018 - Google Patents
An improved method and system for processing network metadata is described. Network
metadata may be processed by dynamically instantiated executable software modules …

SDN EPC network-based charging method, system and storage medium

J Wang, N Zhou, Y Bi, J Wang - US Patent 9,913,122, 2018 - Google Patents
Disclosed is a charging method and system based on a SDN EPC network, which includes:
receiving, by a controller, a charging rule from a charging rule generator, and establishing …

Systems and methods for reducing network hardware of a centrally-controlled network using in-band network connections

L Poutievski, A Vahdat - US Patent 9,253,117, 2016 - Google Patents
A network topology system for reducing the hardware links in a centrally-controlled network
having a plurality of network switches and a plurality of centralized controllers controlling …

Systems and methods for improving network redundancy and for facile initialization in a centrally-controlled network

L Poutievski, A Vahdat - US Patent 8,989,194, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND A network system includes the hardware, and Supporting Software,
necessary to transmit information between comput ers. One can distinguish between a …