Stateful failover of service managers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6704278
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09347123

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A system and method are disclosed for providing a fault tolerant network service. A packet is received that corresponds to a flow from a forwarding agent at a primary service manager and instructions are determined at the primary service manager for handling packets corresponding to the flow. The instructions are sent to the forwarding agent and the instructions are stored at the primary service manager. A replication packet is sent to a backup service manager. The replication packet includes the instructions for handling packets corresponding to the flow.

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  • CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Albert, Mark Wake Forest, NC 50 2942
Howes, Richard A Roswell, GA 38 3274
Jordan, James A Roswell, GA 23 1960
Kersey, Edward A Alpharetta, GA 16 1381
LeBlanc, William M Athens, GA 25 1772
Menditto, Louis F Raleigh, NC 44 3435
O'Rourke, Chris Morrisville, NC 66 2994
Tiwari, Pranav Kumar Raleigh, NC 29 1876
Wong, Bruce F Athens, GA 15 813

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