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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ira Weiny, Livermore, CA (US);
Douglas S Oucharek, Naramata, CA;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0823 (2013.01); H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 43/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
An originated packet is to be forward-propagated along a path to a destination device, with the path including one or more intermediary node devices. A path quality indication representing a reported error having been detected by at least one of the intermediary node devices residing along the path, is incorporated in the forward-propagating packet. The destination device incorporates the path quality indication in an acknowledgement packet directed to the originator of the packet.