US 12,413,509 B2
Application-aware links
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US); and Wei-Jen Huang, Burlingame, CA (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/532,290.
Application 18/532,290 is a continuation of application No. 16/011,302, filed on Jun. 18, 2018, granted, now 11,882,024.
Prior Publication US 2024/0106737 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 45/28 (2022.01); H04L 43/0817 (2022.01); H04L 43/16 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 47/26 (2022.01); H04L 45/302 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/28 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/26 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
tagging, by a transmitting device, application-specific traffic from an application with a source application identifier which identifies the application;
transmitting, by the transmitting device, network traffic, including the tagged application-specific traffic to a receiving device;
saving, by the transmitting device, a copy of the application-specific traffic that was tagged and transmitted;
initiating, by a receiving device, monitoring of link error conditions relative to the tagged application-specific network traffic; and
in response to the monitoring the link error conditions, creating and sending, by the receiving device, a message with a tag associated with the monitoring to the transmitting device that tagged the application-specific traffic.