US 12,407,616 B2
Policy instance reuse in control planes of networks
Changhong Shen, Shanghai (CN); Chunxu Zhou, Shanghai (CN); FeiXiang Zhao, Shanghai (CN); Pu Duan, Shanghai (CN); Yin Wang, Shanghai (CN); and Hongbo Xia, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/589,903.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/610,256, filed on Dec. 14, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0202825 A1, Jun. 19, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 12/14 (2024.01); H04L 47/20 (2022.01); H04L 47/2491 (2022.01); H04W 76/38 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 47/20 (2013.01) [H04L 47/2491 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
evaluating a user profile of a user of a wide area network (WAN);
based at least in part on the evaluating, determining tunnels within the WAN having one or more common attributes;
based at least in part on the one or more common attributes, grouping the tunnels into groups; and
for each particular group, installing, by a controller of a control plane of the WAN, a corresponding quality of service (QoS) policy instance on each tunnel of the particular group.