US 11,991,090 B2
Resource orchestration for multiple services
Shankar Ramanathan, Richardson, TX (US); Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US); and Carlos M. Pignataro, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,345.
Application 17/969,345 is a continuation of application No. 17/157,029, filed on Jan. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,539,637.
Prior Publication US 2023/0044088 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 47/80 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/80 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by an orchestration engine executing on a network device, a request, from a first service of a plurality of services that are executing within a container, for use of a physical/hardware resource that connects the container running on the network device to a network;
determining whether to connect the first service to the network via the physical/hardware resource based on the request; and
establishing, at a kernel level, a connection between the first service from among the plurality of services executing in the container and the physical/hardware resource based on determining to connect the first service.