US 11,855,897 B2
Migration from a legacy network appliance to a network function virtualization (NFV) appliance
Patrick Connor, Beaverton, OR (US); Andrey Chilikin, Limerick (IE); Brendan Ryan, Limerick (IE); Chris MacNamara, Limerick (IE); John J. Browne, Limerick (IE); Krishnamurthy Jambur Sathyanarayana, Limerick (IE); Stephen Doyle, Ennis (IE); Tomasz Kantecki, Ennis (IE); Anthony Kelly, Limerick (IE); Ciara Loftus, County Galway G (IE); and Fiona Trahe, Clarecastle (IE)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/356,420.
Application 17/356,420 is a continuation of application No. 16/395,774, filed on Apr. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,070,476.
Prior Publication US 2021/0320870 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 47/2441 (2022.01); H04L 43/0817 (2022.01); G06F 8/76 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 47/125 (2013.01) [G06F 8/76 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
an interface and
circuitry coupled to the interface, the circuitry, when operational, to:
select one or more network function virtualization (NFV) devices based on an indicator;
provide a first packet for processing by the selected one or more NFV devices; and
select a legacy network appliance to process a second packet to provide co- existence of the legacy network appliance and the one or more NFV devices for processing packets of particular packet parameters and migration of processing packets of particular packet parameters between the one or more NFV devices and the legacy network appliance, wherein the first packet and the second packet share packet parameters.