US 12,218,800 B2
Methods for application defined virtual network service among multiple transport in sd-wan
Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy, Chennai (IN); and Gopakumar Choorakkot Edakkunni, Milpitas, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/211,568.
Application 18/211,568 is a continuation of application No. 17/737,933, filed on May 5, 2022, granted, now 11,729,065.
Claims priority of application No. 202141020681 (IN), filed on May 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0336431 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/122 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 43/028 (2022.01); H04L 43/0882 (2022.01); H04L 43/18 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/122 (2022.05) [H04L 43/028 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 43/18 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of selecting for an application operating at a first site one of a plurality of data links used by an edge router at the first site, the edge router connected to a set of one or more other sites through a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), the method comprising:
at the first site:
identifying, for an application, a set of one or more link characteristics;
based on the identified set of link characteristics, selecting a transport group comprising a set of one or more candidate links with a matching set of link characteristics; and
from the selected transport group, selecting one of the links in the transport group;
using the selected link to forward data messages associated with the application.