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Patent No.:

US 10142160 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2011

System and methods for managing network hardware address requests with a controller

Applicants:

Robert Edward Adams, San Mateo, CA (US);

Daniel E. Talayco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mandeep Singh Dhami, San Jose, CA (US);

Shudong Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);

Kanzhe Jiang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Guido Appenzeller, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Edward Adams, San Mateo, CA (US);

Daniel E. Talayco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mandeep Singh Dhami, San Jose, CA (US);

Shudong Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);

Kanzhe Jiang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Guido Appenzeller, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Big Switch Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Treyz Law Group, P.C.

Michael H. Lyons

Primary Examiner:

Gregory B Sefcheck

Assistant Examiner:

Majid Esmaeilian

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller may fulfill hardware address requests that are sent by source end hosts in a network to discover hardware addresses of destination end hosts. The controller may use network topology information to determine how to process the hardware address requests. The controller may retrieve a requested hardware address from a database of end hosts. If the controller is able to retrieve the hardware address of a destination end host from the database of end hosts, the controller may provide the source end host with a reply packet that contains the requested hardware address. If the controller is unable to retrieve the requested hardware address, the controller may form request packets to discover the address of the second end host and/or to discover a packet forwarding path between the source end host and the destination end host.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Adams, Robert. (2018). System and methods for managing network hardware address requests with a controller (U.S. Patent No. 10142160). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10142160

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