Service processing switch

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8064462
SERIAL NO

12781808

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Methods and systems for providing IP services in an integrated fashion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system includes a switch fabric and a line interface/network module, multiple virtual routing engines (VREs) and a virtual services engine (VSE) coupled with the switch fabric. The line interface/network module receives packets, steers ingress packets to a selected VRE and transmits egress packets according to their relative priority. VREs determines if a packet associated with a packet flow requires processing by the VSE by performing flow-based packet classification on the packet and evaluating forwarding state information associated with previously stored flow learning results. The VSE includes a central processing unit configured to perform firewall processing, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering and anti-virus processing. If the packet is determined to require processing by the VSE, then the packet is steered to the VSE for firewall, URL filtering and/or anti-virus processing.

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FORTINET INCSUNNYVALE CA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hussain, Zahid San Jose, US 82 2869
Millet, Tim Mountain View, US 33 1952

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