US 11,695,640 B2
Container telemetry in data center environments with blade servers and switches
Patnala Debashis Rao, Cupertino, CA (US); Huilong Huang, Milpitas, CA (US); Deepak Raykar, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US); and Stephanie Wong, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/510,075.
Application 17/510,075 is a continuation of application No. 16/570,886, filed on Sep. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,196,632.
Application 16/570,886 is a continuation of application No. 15/656,381, filed on Jul. 21, 2017, granted, now 10,425,288, issued on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0045912 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 41/22 (2022.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 12/44 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 41/12 (2013.01) [H04L 12/44 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a network controller, link connectivity information;
receiving, at the network controller, network component link connectivity information;
correlating, at the network controller, the link connectivity information with the network component link connectivity information;
determining, at the network controller, container connectivity information based on the correlation of the link connectivity information with the network component link connectivity information; and
generating a visual representation illustrating the container connectivity information.